Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - A camera can only take real images, while a flat mirror is a virtual image. Then why can the camera take pictures in front of the mirror?

A camera can only take real images, while a flat mirror is a virtual image. Then why can the camera take pictures in front of the mirror?

When the camera takes a real image, it means that a real image is formed in the photosensitive part of the camera. The position of this real image is formed by the light emitted by the object, which is collected in the photosensitive part after direct, reflection or refraction. This is not to say that cameras can only take pictures of real objects, real images and virtual images, and cameras are the same.