• Question: How is the human eye like a camera?

    Asked by meg123 to Amy, Karen, Sarah, Vijay, Will on 19 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Sarah Martin

      Sarah Martin answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Hi meg123!

      Both the human eye and a camera have a lens at the front that focuses light onto a screen or our retina, which are also much the same thing.

      Here are two diagrams that show you how similar they are:
      camera:

      eye:
      http://share.sja.edu.hk/~phy/eye.GIF

      See?
      🙂 Sarah

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