> Some of us want a record of what was, not a hallucination of what might have or could have been Yes, but that doesn’t imply “A camera is supposed to take pic

> Some of us want a record of what was, not a hallucination of what might have or could have been Yes, but that doesn’t imply “A camera is supposed to take pictures of what it sees”, only “cameras sometimes are supposed to take pictures of what they see”. Some of us prefer a nice picture over a more exact record of what was; some of us will even argue that such manipulated pictures are better at capturing what was precisely because they sacrifice some of the physical reality for the non-physical essence of a moments one’s memory of such a moment. That moon photo is a nice example. Smartphone cameras aren’t very good at capturing what the full moon looks like in our memory.