All Textbook Topics - Light - Pin-hole cameras - When you make the pinhole camera longer, the image gets larger
When you make the pinhole camera longer, the image gets larger
When the pin-hole camera is made longer for a given distance from the object, the light rays can spread out more, so the image gets larger.
Here is a diagram of this:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/1587252405kRfPqzEHoWFC9SYOUwc2mdpsaItgvN.png)
Here is what the real image on the camera looks like:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/1587224665fi63oPsNcazFxtvb94B5GeCXD7prqw.png)
Longer and shorter camera comparison:
![](https://cdn.figureoutphysics.com/text/15872245677wfi3UbhBTkzQtYdXZneWx92ploD0M.png)
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