Your Eye as a Camera

Dec

2008

Your Eye as a Camera

I was reading an article this morning about the death of VHS tapes and from there I started reading about the progression of video formats. Each new advance in video technology has come with an increase in resolution, and will do so until we quite possibly reach the resolution of the real-world. Now, the world doesn't really have resolution. It's what you use to view the world. So I looked up the resolution of human eyes:

Apparently, our eyes have a resolution of 576 MEGAPIXELS! But that's only in the forward 120 degrees, and doesn't count the 180+ degree field of view that we have if you count our peripheral vision. All of a sudden, my 6 megapixel camera seems so lame.