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Pentaprism

A pentaprism is a five-sided prism. Typically, a pentaprism has four optical faces, and one face that is left unworked. This prism has the virtue of transmitting an image through a right angle without inverting it as an ordinary right-angle prism would. The pentaprism is used in the viewfinder of a single lens reflex camera.

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