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

I’m just taking a stab here but I’d guess it has something to do with the fact that our brains can determine distance on the object we’re forcusing on and adjust focus accordingly. It’s the same logic as “live focus” on your phone except you’re giving it an object to focus on so it tracks that, whereas our brains can make these changes so quickly that they are completely unnoticeable by the human brain; maybe our brains cancel it out the way it does with sound when we’re focusing on someones voice during conversation? IDK…