how come my 1k+ dollar phone/camera can’t see nearly as much as my eye can. For example, we can both make out the moon clearly, and focus on tiny close up objects, but most cameras can’t.

Question

how come my 1k+ dollar phone/camera can’t see nearly as much as my eye can. For example, we can both make out the moon clearly, and focus on tiny close up objects, but most cameras can’t.

In: Technology

Answer 1

Because your eye doesn’t take a picture. It takes two constant streams of info that your brain fills in any missing or wonky info with the best guess and then creates a 3-D real time map of the world around you. They are completely different in both form and purpose. The image your eye collects is actually pretty bad but the brain does a lot to fill in and make it look better.