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CAMERA OBSCURA SEES ALL

Irish Daily Star

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September 16, 2025

LOCATED in Dumfries Museum's observatory, the world's oldest functioning camera obscura has been functioning since 1836.

- BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

The camera obscura, which is Latin for "dark chamber," shows a 360 panorama of the surrounding landscape, projected onto a focusing table for viewers.

In 1835, after a proposal began to demolish the mill, a local man purchased an abandoned windmill high on Corbelly Hill for £350.

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