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A pinhole camera has no lens but can nevertheless produce a sharp inverted image because only one ray from a particular point can enter the tiny pinhole aperture, and so no blurring takes place. However, the very low amount of light entering the camera also means that the film at the back must be exposed for a long time before a photographic image is produced; the camera is therefore only suitable for photographing stationary objects.

Simplest type of camera, in which a pinhole rather than a lens is used to form an image. Light passes through the pinhole at one end of a box to form an inverted image on the inside surface of the opposite end. A photographic film or plate fitted inside the box will, if exposed for a long time, record the image.



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