Jul 4, 2018 10:32
5 yrs ago
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Spanish term

juego de espectros

Spanish to English Other Photography/Imaging (& Graphic Arts)
From a brochure on the sights to see in Edinburgh, this on it's camera obscura which offers a virtual tour the city...

Con sus cinco pisos de ilusiones ópticas, Camera Obscura nos propone, entre todas sus atracciones, dos formas de explorar la capital.
Los telescopios de la torre de guardia nos permiten observar el pasar de los transeúntes y los monumentos de la ciudad.
Un poco más arriba, en una cámara oscura, un guía nos acerca a la historia de la ciudad y proyecta su imagen en tiempo real gracias a un ***juego de espectros***.

I know a fair bit about camera obscura, it's basic technology, a large-scale pinhole camera with a lens intead of a crude pinhole. The ones mounted in towers can be swung about and a guide expains the various places of interest. The dont involve spectrometers or anything so fancy, so I'm thinking perhaps I could render this as "set/selection/range of lenses".

Unless I'm missing something and it has a specific meaning here.

Here's another use, although in this case its used more figuratively...

https://books.google.es/books?id=yTcyBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA158&lpg=P...
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 juego de espejos
3 +1 spectral array

Discussion

Charles Davis Jul 4, 2018:
Typo I'm with Phil on this one. There is precisely one Google result for "juego de espectros" in relation to Edinburgh's Camera Obscura, and that one is presumably related to your source text. I honestly don't think it makes any sense, though I admire Neil's attempt to square this circle, and it's true that there are "spectral illusions" on the lower floors (nothing to do with the actual Camera Obscura). It does in fact use mirrors, and a number of Spanish-language sites refer to the "juego de espejos" of the Camera Obscura. So I think it's just a mistake.

Proposed translations

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juego de espejos

System of mirrors.

"The crowning glory is Edinburgh's Camera Obscura. A camera obscura is a device that uses lenses and mirrors to project an image that enters through a hole at roof level downwards onto a circular screen housed in a darkened room within the building itself."
http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/cameraobscur...
Peer comment(s):

agree Charles Davis
24 mins
agree neilmac : It'd have saved me time and effort if they'd put "espejos" to begin with... :)
1 day 17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks so much, I rarely pick up on typos! Thank's to to Neil and his creativity"
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spectral array

Although I agree with your comments that it simply means "set/selection/range of lenses\", I think they may be aiming at a play on words between "spectres" (ghosts, for which Edinburgh is renowned) and spectrum...Hence my suggestion :)
Example sentence:

Plasma images obtained using the camera obscura in the X-ray spectral region...

Peer comment(s):

agree franglish : Well combined!
1 hr
neutral philgoddard : This is a term I'd associate with spectroscopy and electronics. The camera obscura predates this technology and is much more low-tech.
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