how many megapixels equals the acuteness of the human eye?

Question

i wonder how long it will be till i can photograph exactly what i'll see.

you know, you guys didn't have to be jerks with the anwsers. i am actually not a bad photographer but i guess i'd have to be a pro to get some respect. thanks dick

Answer 1

I starred this question, because I thought is asked for a very good comparison between the mechanical and biological.

I don't know the numerical answer, but I have to disagree with those that say that it cannot have one. There MUST be one, because detail resolution is limited to the receptors at the back of the eye, in the retina. (rods and cones)

The difference between the biological and the mechanical occurs in the BRAIN, not the eye. It is the brain that "filters out" what is important and what is not. The eye's resolution is, clearly NOT unlimited, but it is the brain's function to, also, "fill in" blind spots and blanks that occur between the receptors. (persistance of vision, which is also what allows us to see the individual frames of a movie as continuous motion)

Still, I am happy to see the discussion played out, here, on Yahoo Answers. Allow me to add one more thing. The human eye sees in the RGB gamut, VERY close to what the computor monitor displays.

Answer 2

You might as well ask how many apples equals a quart of orange juice. They are two completely different systems.

And as for how long it will be until you can photograph exactly what you see, the shot answer is never.

Photography takes a 3 dimensional image and compresses into a 2 dimensional image. The best you can do photographically is view an image shot with a stereoscopic camera, and that is still a 2 dimensional image giving the illusion of 3 dimensions.

Technology may eventually give us a means of recording true 3 dimensional images, but when that happens, it will no longer be photography, or at least it will be as far beyone photography as photography is beyond cave drawings.

Answer 3

There is no comparison.
The eye dynamic range far exceeds anything film or digital can do.
Not only that digital currently records in a two dimensional medium, Our eye Observes in 3.
Resolution is also not revelant as that is based on viewing distance of the final product. (ever seen the pictures that on close examination actually contain thousands of pictures to make the image?)

Answer 4

Here is an interesting article that will shed light on the subject of the question you are posing http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html
A consevative estimate of human vision would be around 600megapixels, but as you will read, there is a lot of fudging in the math because you are trying to superimpose one set of mathematical principles used for a specific type of optics, on a completely different set of optics.

Answer 5

Well, the eye would be equivalent to a camera lense, and the amount of megapixels of each scene gathered thru the eye, would be defined by the brain of an individual. When it comes to personal abilitys, each individual has their own unique abilitys.

Answer 6

I am Borg. You will be assimilated.