A 60-year-old with presbyopia views close objects through pinhole glasses; which phenomenon reduces blurriness, despite the underlying accommodative dysfunction?

💡 Explanation

Pinhole glasses enhance focus in presbyopia because they limit the range of angles at which light rays enter the eye; therefore the depth of field increases, reducing blurriness, rather than neural adaptation or receptor effects compensating for the lost accommodation.

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