Roof prism with the roof surface, these prisms
are used to invert and reverse the image.
Roof prisms rotate a beam by 90° and at the same time invert
the beam of light. This makes the amici roof prism appropriate
for use in telescope eyepieces.
A single Porro prism is the simplest type of roof prism, though
in its most common application (the double-Porro configuration
in binoculars) it is not used as a roof prism.
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