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Old 01-05-2009, 02:25 PM   #1
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Optical Question Very Interesting

Ok someone here has to know the answer. I wear contacts and glasses when I don't have my contacts in. My vision is not super bad. I have an astigmatism(sp?) in both eyes. My dad has great far vision and needs glass for close vision or watching TV. So here is the question. I had my glasses on the other night. I held his glasses out in front of my glasses at about arms reach. When I looked through my glasses that I had on through his glasses at the TV or the clock everything was upside down. No one believed me. I then grabbed my camera and put it behind my glasses and had my wife hold my dad's glasses at arms reach. We snapped a picture and sure as could be you can tell the image was upside down. I did the same with my wife's glasses and my my mom's reading glasses and the image that was displayed was normal? Anyone know why?
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Old 01-05-2009, 02:58 PM   #2
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light refraction through convex and concave lenses and focal points. If the wearer of the glasses is farsighted you will probably see upside-down Images in his convex lenses. If he is nearsighted you will see small upright images in his concave lenses.
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Old 01-05-2009, 03:01 PM   #3
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Ahhh makes sense... My wifes I see small images.... Suprised I never noticed before....
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Old 01-05-2009, 04:06 PM   #4
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I wouldn't have every realized that. Good show and tell!
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