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Question: How many mega pixels does our eyes have!?
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By some estimates, your eyes have an effective resolution of more than 500 megapixels!.!.!.according to an article of Herald Tribune, technolgy and midia, JUNE 8, 2006Www@QuestionHome@Com

Not this old chestnut again!.

The human eye is actually pretty basic, it can't see fine detail unless you put a magnifying glass in front of it, it can't see distance unless you put a telescope in front of it, it can't see really small unless you put a microscope in front of it!. All these apply to cameras too, of course!.

The receptors on the eye and the rods and cone which give colour perception only number a few million so from that point of view the human eye is very low res!. Much less than a high end digital camera!.

What the human eye does have which no camera has is a very powerful 'Intelligent Image Processor' behind it!.

Actually digital cameras see in analogue, the A to D converter within the camera changes the format to digital!. As the eye doesn't have an A to D converter you can't put the output of the eye into Mp!. So you can't compare directly!.

In physical terms the human eye would come off second best to a top end digital camera, but in data processing it wins hands down!.

Don't forget that the eye is a movie camera and a lot of information is built up over several 'frames' so comparing it to a still camera is really none productive!.

ChrisWww@QuestionHome@Com

As others have said, this isn't something that can easily be calculated!. Something to keep in mind, though, is that the human eye sees an exponentially larger number of variations in contrast than a camera sensor!. This is why lighting can appear so different in a photo than it looked to the eye, especially areas of detail in shade!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

It isn't such a simple thing to calculate!. The human vision is much more than the nuber of "rods and cones" located on the retina!.

Because our brain interprets every input from the eye and builds a picture as the eye moves, the equivalent is huge! The resource below give a fair explanation:

http://www!.clarkvision!.com/imagedetail/e!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't know the answer, but it is much more (by magnitudes!) than the most sophisticated digital camera!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

more megapixel than any camera could have!. we see the picture of life clearly; also we see depth, something a flat image cant duplicate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com