>This is one of many examples of our brains being much more powerful than our eyes. Too often we think of our eyes as perfect cameras. However, it is the brain

>This is one of many examples of our brains being much more powerful than our eyes. Too often we think of our eyes as perfect cameras. However, it is the brain that is able to accomodate [sic] for all of the optical shortcomings in order to resolve the world. While this is a description of the human brain and human eye it's interesting to me that it is a very accurate description of the progression of camera technology in the last few years as we shift from the supremacy of Big Glass to the amazing results from computational photography being applied to cell-phone sized lenses