Lily J.

asked • 04/02/22

Physics Help Please- Lens

The actual light sensor size of a digital camera is 14.9 mm X 22.3 mm. You want to take a photograph of your friend, who is 2.0m tall. Your camera has a 50mm-focal-length lens. How far from the camera should your friend stand in order to produce a 22 mm tall image on the light sensor(in meters)?


What I did was convert all the values into meters and plug them in the thin lens equation as follows:

1/do + 1/0.022 = 1/.05

1/do = (1/.05) - (1/.022)

1/do = -25.45

do = 1/ -25.46

do= -0.039 m


I entered -0.039 m and it was wrong. Please help me figure it out.


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Lily J.

Thank you so much for helping. I see where I went wrong now
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