All Textbook Topics - Light - Pin-hole cameras - When you make the pinhole camera shorter, the image gets smaller
When you make the pinhole camera shorter, the image gets smaller
When the pin-hole camera is made shorter for a given distance from the object, the light rays don't spread out as much, so the image gets smaller.
Here is a diagram of this:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/1587251898iOZhJ8f1oUWq57nYejp29kbrFcSDuC.png)
Here is what the real image on the camera looks like:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/15872245315Zcudn8NyHFW7jiR4EIQO2DSfaU9M3.png)
Longer and shorter camera comparison:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/1587224531rJF4ghKIOmi8d5TtSnfXqD2ElaZRU7.png)
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