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If our eyes where a camera, what mega-pixel would you say they are?

asked Jul 14 '10 at 19:41

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Source: http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html

Consider a view in front of you that is 90 degrees by 90 degrees, like looking through an open window at a scene. The number of pixels would be 90 degrees * 60 arc-minutes/degree * 1/0.3 * 90 * 60 * 1/0.3 = 324,000,000 pixels (324 megapixels). At any one moment, you actually do not perceive that many pixels, but your eye moves around the scene to see all the detail you want. But the human eye really sees a larger field of view, close to 180 degrees. Let's be conservative and use 120 degrees for the field of view. Then we would see 120 * 120 * 60 * 60 / (0.3 * 0.3) = 576 megapixels. The full angle of human vision would require even more megapixels. This kind of image detail requires A large format camera to record.

In short: Human eye = 576 mega pixels

May differ based on how clear you can see

answered Jul 14 '10 at 19:46

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Wow... that's a very good answer. You know what the problem is with it, though? Now there won't be a single person willing to give a guess or even make a response to this question because you've already given the best possible answer ^_^;

(Jul 15 '10 at 18:01) Eric Fox Eric%20Fox's gravatar image

Holy crap!!! 576 megapixels??? And I thought my photographer's camera was good! :o

(Jul 15 '10 at 18:03) AppleHack23 AppleHack23's gravatar image

576 megapixels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Aug 02 '10 at 04:10) elko5903 elko5903's gravatar image

@applehack23 the resolution isnt the only thing that matters

(Aug 02 '10 at 09:57) Tim Fontana Tim%20Fontana's gravatar image

And I thought my 12 megapixel camera was good... -_-

(Aug 02 '10 at 14:19) chadt4 chadt4's gravatar image

what did i just say, the resolution doesnt matter that much on a camera past about 6-8mp

(Aug 02 '10 at 17:29) Tim Fontana Tim%20Fontana's gravatar image
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20 Billion gigapixels beacsue everything is all ways in focus etc

answered Aug 02 '10 at 12:06

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why not exapixels? :)

(Aug 02 '10 at 17:23) Tim Fontana Tim%20Fontana's gravatar image

Probably like 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 megapixels. The only reason why I say that is the human eye is pretty much the best camera you can ever have. =P

answered Aug 02 '10 at 18:33

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