[Sca-cooks] camera obscura

[kattratt]

Ok now this might seem odd but IIRC I saw a show about the Shroud of 
Turrin (sp?) being a photo actually done by DaVinci as a Hoax.  THe show 
said that they had tested it and it had the right chemicals as well as 
the fact that they found this room in Italy that he had worked in that 
was a Huge Camera Obscura... Don't know how true this is but the Channel 
was Discovery I think.  And no I don't have any further info either.
Nichola


Elaine Koogler wrote:

> I don't remember further information but, when I visited Edinburgh 
> some years back, there was a building that had a room in it that had 
> historically functioned as a camera obscura.  Didn't have the time to 
> get to see it, but the idea of a room-size camera was a little 
> mind-boggling.  Then I remembered that, IIRC, the Italian word for 
> room is "camera"...or is it Latin?  So it makes sense that these 
> things were an actual room.
>
> Kiri