ELIF: Why are cameras so much worse than the human eye at capturing images in the dark?
In: Technology
The computer processing the data is significantly more powerful in the human. Plus our eyes can adjust their sensitivity by increasing the levels of rhodopsin in the retina.
Hold up a toilet paper tube to your eye and then compare, the eye is round so there are more directions light can enter, whilst a camera lens is usually in a sort of scope blocking out the non-direct lights