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Take a photo with any camera at night and compare with what you're seeing with your eyeballs.

• ajross 8y ago
  Have you... actually tried that? Night shots with a decent camera sensor work much better than your eyes. You're probably being fooled by the exposure control on your junky consumer phone app. Grab one with manual control over exposure/iso and sample rate, you'll be shocked. It's not even a secret. Light capture in a phototransistor[1] is a basically direct process without a whole lot of loss or wasted surface area. Those cone cells are living things and only have a little volume to dedicate to pigment chemistry. [1] CCD's of course can do an order of magnitude better still, and those are easily cheap enough to put in a car.
  • eanzenberg 8y ago
    How are you arguing that ccd’s are better than human eyes? Take video at night and compare. Why do you think hollywood, with their 100k+ camera rigs, still need to add artificial light everywhere especially night scenes? Eyes are incredible at dynamic range, resolution, and response rate. They have to be due to evolution.
    • pedrocr 8y ago
      If you want to see how consumer cameras can take night video much better than your eyes look up Sony A7S video. Modern cameras have such clean output at high ISO that you can turn night into day with great quality. Modern consumer cameras have far surpassed what our eyes can do in all the metrics you describe (dynamic range, resolution, response rate) and many others. It's not even close.