Eli5: why when you take pictures with your phone (for example, of a beautiful sunset) the colours and proportions don’t look as good as with the human eye?
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No offense to others, but most of these answers are not correct.
The human eye has a way way way better dynamic range than any camera. Dynamic range is the ability to see things in different brightness in the same scene. You’ll notice that in a camera if you focus the camera on a dark part of the scene, the bright parts get totally washed out and white and if you focus on a bright part of a scene the dark parts become really dark. The better the dynamic range the better a camera or eye is at dealing with these differences in brightness in the same scene.
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