PIN-HOLE CAMERA

CONSTRUCTION:

  • Two boxes are taken so that one can slide into another with no gap in between.
  • One side of each box is cut open.
  • On the opposite face of larger box, make a small hole in the middle.
  • A square of side about 5 cm is cut open in the middle of the opposite face of the smaller box.
  • The cut square portion was covered with tracing paper (Translucent Screen).
  • The smaller box is slide inside the larger one with hole, in such a way that Side with tracing paper is inside.
  • Your pinhole camera is ready to use.

WORKING:
  • Holding the pin-hole camera, some distant objects are looked through the open face of the smaller box.
  • The smaller box is moved forward or backward till we get a picture on the tracing paper pasted at other end.

Pin-hole images are different from shadows, as they are
      • Colourful
      • Upside down

Natural Pin-hole Camera:
    • The gaps between the leaves act as pinholes.
    • The small circular patches of sunlight under a tree are actually the pin-hole images of the sun.

Formation of pin-hole images is possible because light moves in a straight path.

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