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Re:Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test by freetime2 on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:28AM (#33121824)
I’ve always felt that my eye handles high dynamic range scenes much better than cameras. In the past I would shoot a photo and the shadows in the photo would be much darker than they appeared to me in person, and the sky would be blown out with no color.

These compressed images feel closer to me to the way I actually perceive the world. The colors do sometimes get a little funky though.

Re:Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test by jsjohnst on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:54AM (#33122189)
> I’ve always felt that my eye handles high dynamic range scenes much better than cameras.

Depending on what you mean by “eye handles”, yes, you have far more dynamic range than most cameras. The reason I caveat is that just like how modern smartphones with their “computation images” are really combining multiple shots together, so is your brain. I forget the exact numbers, but I think the retina itself is around 5-8 stops of dynamic range and what your brain “sees” when you are looking around is something like 15-20 stops.

Re:Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test by neogodless on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:57AM (#33122227)
https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/if-your-eyes-were-ca...

Human Eye - 21 stops

Best Camera - <= 15 stops