All Textbook Topics - Light - Pin-hole cameras - When the distance between the pin-hole camera and the object increases, the image gets smaller

When the distance between the pin-hole camera and the object increases, the image gets smaller

When the pin-hole camera is further away from the object, the light rays are at a shallower angle so don't spread out as much in the camera for a given camera length, making the image smaller.

Here is my diagram of this:

Here is what the real image on the camera looks like:

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