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> So in short: I dispute the idea that cameras don’t have the acuity of the human visual system, nowadays. I’d like to know in which aspects you believe human eyes to still be superior, from an optical point of view.

Dynamic range. Your eyes can pick up subtle details in a scene with very bright lights, and very dark shadows.

No video camera currently exists that can take a good video from inside a city, at night, with a starry night sky. Either the stars, or the lights, or the shadows are going to look like crap. Your eyes can trivially handle such a problem.



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