Question

Why cannot we see upside down image of the sun through the pinhole camera?

• A. None of these
• B. Pinhole camera can only make point size image
• C. Object like sun which is infinite in size, forms point sized or highly diminished image.
• D. Sun is circular in shape, it doesn't affect

Answer 1

The correct option is C

Object like sun which is infinite in size, forms point sized or highly diminished image.

Pinhole camera always forms inverted images. The reason we don't see the image of the sun inverted is that the image is very small and it is highly symmetrical (the sun itself is spherical and symmetric). The image of the sun is inverted, but due to symmetry in the shape of the sun, the image appears to be same as that of the original and not inverted.