I always find this interesting when it comes to image capture and editing. When designing a camera's imagery circuits for example, do you try to get the picture

I always find this interesting when it comes to image capture and editing. When designing a camera's imagery circuits for example, do you try to get the picture most resembling actually reality, or the one most resembling human reality; the one where light passes through our lenses, hits a tangle of rods and cones of various densities, and then gets processed in all sorts of weird ways as the jumple of neural signals from those cells make their way into your conscience as an image?