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The image of a nearby object formed by a camera lens is (a)(a) at the lens' focal point. (b)(b) always blurred. (c)(c) at the same location as the image of an object at infinity. (d)(d) farther from the lens than the lens' focal point.

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Objects closer than infinity produce images that are farther from the lens than the focal point. But an object at infinity produces an image at the focus of the lens.

This is in accordance to the lens equation, according to which

1do+1di=1f.\frac{1}{d_o}+\frac{1}{d_i}=\frac{1}{f}.

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