Why are convegent lens used for amplification?

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I have seen today a video on electron microscopy and the way TEM was explained, with a point light passing through lens, got me asking: After making the rays of light parallel, they go through a lens to amplify the image. My question is, this lens converge the light rather than diverging them. The rays converge onto a single point, and then diverge. Is this method of amplification less prone to constructions error on the lens, or more precise in general?

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Link to the video: [https://youtu.be/eYVNZgnQ8gE?t=454](https://youtu.be/eYVNZgnQ8gE?t=454)

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You need to think about it from the other direction…the lens converges light onto the object, but that’s not the direction we see things…we see light/electrons coming *from* the object. So as they bounce back from the object and back through the lens they *diverge* (get farther apart), making the image appear physically larger than the object.