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

You eye is not a camera.

A camera is a grid of sensors that get red line by line, row by row. It sees in a predictable pattern.

The sensors in your eye, rods and cones, are not a grid, they are a random-ish collection of cells, each sending out a signal all the time.

A camera has a processor that says, line by line, row by row, RGB.

You brain takes a lot of information, and creates an image in your brain.

Two different things.