Lesson 9 Optical Devices

Mirrors and lenses are used sometimes singly, other times in combination to produce instruments that are used for viewing, enhancing, enlarging, rediricting, and otherwise manipulating light rays for useful and sometimes fun purposes.

Has a lens that collects light from an object so that an image can be recorded

Founder of the Kodak company, pioneered the use of photographic film in the back of the camera to record a real image.

Digital cameras use a light-sensitive electronic circuit called?

uses a combination of plane mirror

Five sided prism

is incredibly useful for the budding biologist. Like a simple magnifier, it gives the user a magnified image of a very small object.

A telescope that uses lenses

A telescope that uses mirrors

gives you an enlarged image of a tiny object.