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Like in your eye, the image is taken in the camera upside-down, and then it is sent to some mirrors inside it that turn it right-side-up. Of course, that is in old-style cameras that print the pictures out. But in modern-day cameras, it is simply electricity that makes the image possible.

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By the phenomenon of refraction of light

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When a ray of light contacts the surface of the lens it is bent by the change in density between air and the lens material; this is called refraction. The surface of a lens has some degree of curvature. So two rays of light that strike neighbouring points on the lens will be bent by slightly different amounts, because of the curvature. A whole band of light striking the lens will be bent by a whole range of angles depending on where each ray in the band strikes the lens. The consequence is that the lens can bend incoming light into an image.

For some illustrations see the wikipedia article about lenses.

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