If you could take pictures with your eyes, would you consider it as the best camera?

[Blackberryroid]

If you could take pictures with your eyes, would you consider it as the best camera ever? I know I would. It's so clear, clearer than the ISO 100 of my DSLR or it's 8 Megapixels.

 

[dukebound85]

other animals have better eyes than humans, so no

 

[Mousse]

No zoom, no wide angle, no infrared, no long exposure, no high speed shutter, no flash, limited resolution. No, not the greatest camera.

On the plus side, there's a fantastic dynamic range, white balancing and exposure compensation.

 

[Andeavor]

My focus is off, so no.

 

[APlotdevice]

The eye would make a crappy camera. It's only high resolution within a very small area in the center. There is also a blind spot at the optic nerve. We don't notice these things because our brains try to fill in the blanks.

 

[ejb190]

I have astigmatism and my visual memory is far inferior to my aural memory. (That's why I take pictures in the first place!) So no my eyes would not be a good camera.

 

[sviato]

Pictureception...how do I know if what I'm seeing is real life and not a picture!

 

[mobilehaathi]

Considering my eyes are like -9 and -10 diopters: no.

 

[tech4all]

No zoom, no wide angle, no infrared, no long exposure, no high speed shutter, no flash, limited resolution. No, not the greatest camera.

Zooming? Buy an adapter.
Wide angle? Samething, but I think the eye is wide enough.
Infrared? Most people don't use that.
Long exposure? Depends what you mean by "long." They eye can see pretty well at night. Star trails, well...ok
High speed shutter? The eye is more a video camera so it's not really applicable in this case.
No Flash? Get a flash light.
Limited resolution? The eye has amazing detail.

Course this is based on good vision.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Incidentally, the human eye kinda blows even with perfect vision.

http://xkcd.com/1080/

 

[boss.king]

My eyes are pretty much perfect, and a good DSLR can already out-do them at many things, so no.

 

[iStudentUK]

Incidentally, the human eye kinda blows even with perfect vision.

http://xkcd.com/1080/

I was going to post exactly that!

Moreover there is the fact that your eyes aren't like a camera, your brain makes guesses and assumptions based on what it expects to see.

In conclusion, your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them!

 

[jeremy h]

Yes, nice link. I was going to also say that the hardware is rubbish (upside down images, bad colour repro round the edges, bad low light performance in the middle of the sensor etc etc etc)

But... the firmware that drives it and the image processing software is really something else!

 

[APlotdevice]

Limited resolution? The eye has amazing detail

Only at the center. The peripheral vision captures just enough detail to make out motion and color.

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...upside down images...

Technically all cameras are like that.

But... the firmware that drives it and the image processing software is really something else!

Indeed.

 

[0098386]

There's a lot of dust on my lens (floaters). So no .

 

[mankar4]

There's a lot of dust on my lens (floaters). So no .

Have you gotten that checked out? Thats an early retinal detachment symptom in some cases.

 

[Orange Furball]

Have you gotten that checked out? Thats an early retinal detachment symptom in some cases.

What's that mean? I got em too...

 

[0098386]

Have you gotten that checked out? Thats an early retinal detachment symptom in some cases.

Had them for as long as I can remember, always bring it up with the opticians and opthamologists but my retinas fine. It all is, just awful astigmatism (which does put a strain on the retina but it's still fine they say).
But thanks for the concern nontheless

 

[Ariii]

Poor quality control. But they come in colors !

 

[rei101]

If we were in the medieval times I would be dead by the vision I have. And is not as bad as other people posted here.