How Is Your Eye Like a Camera?

A camera has a diaphragm, an opening that gets bigger or smaller to let in the right amount of light for a clear picture. In your eye, the iris does the same thing. The iris is a thin layer of tissue at the front of your eyeball.

A camera has a lens that focuses the light into a clear picture. Your eye also has a lens to focus the light.

In a camera, the light forms a picture on the IRIS film. In your eyes, the picture is formed on the retina, the inner layer of your eyeball at the back of your eye. Because light rays bend in the eye and in a camera, the picture is upside down on both the film and the retina.

But in the eye, the brain changes the picture to a right-side-up image, and in the camera, when the film is processed, it is simply held right-side up.

6 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/04/27 at 5:02 pm | Permalink

    thankyou

  2. p90
    Posted 2009/07/22 at 11:41 am | Permalink

    Human eye is far better and more complicated than a camera. However, they both share the same mechanism, and a camera is built to imitate the eye.

  3. Anonymous
    Posted 2009/09/27 at 9:23 am | Permalink

    Thank u this helps a lot :) xxxxx

  4. anonymous
    Posted 2010/02/05 at 10:44 am | Permalink

    thanx this is a lifesaver for my science project xx

  5. Emily
    Posted 2010/09/20 at 7:25 pm | Permalink

    In this sentence—-> A camera has a lens that focuses the light into a dear picture. Your eye also has a lens to focus the Fight.
    did you mean “dear” as in clear?
    And “focus the Fight.” As in focus the light?
    Just wondering if you spelt this things wrong or if this is how you say it…thanks (:

  6. Ashley and Brooke
    Posted 2010/11/29 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    thanks so much this helps with our science fair project

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