Editing Lens (section)

=== Table for thin lens imaging properties ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Images of Real Objects Formed by Thin Lenses<ref name="Hecht-2017a" /> 
!Lens Type
!Object Location
!Image Type
!Image Location
!Lateral Image Orientation
!Image Magnification
!Remark
|-
|Converging lens (or positive lens)
|<math>\infty > S_1 > 2f</math>
|Real (rays converging to each image point)
|<math>f < S_2 < 2f</math>
|Inverted (opposite to the object orientation)
|Diminished
|
|-
|Converging lens
|<math>S_1 = 2f</math>
|Real
|<math>S_2 = 2f</math>
|Inverted
|Same size
|
|-
|Converging lens
|<math>f < S_1 < 2f</math>
|Real
|<math>\infty > S_2 > 2f</math>
|Inverted
|Magnified
|
|-
|Converging lens
|<math>S_1 = f</math>
|
|<math>\plusmn \infty</math>
|
|
|
|-
|Converging lens
|<math>S_1 < f</math>
|Virtual (rays apparently diverging from each image point)
|<math>\vert S_2 \vert  > S_1 </math>
|Erect (same to the object orientation)
|Magnified
|As an object moves to the lens, the virtual image also gets closer to the lens while the image size is reduced.
|-
|Diverging lens (or negative lens)
|Anywhere
|Virtual
|<math>\vert S_2 \vert < \vert f \vert, S_1 > \vert S_2 \vert</math>
|Erect
|Diminished
|
|}