My new flying rule - bring camera

"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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"Judah" wrote in message
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No, I mean in MegaPixels.

That depends on both your estimate of angular resolution as well as your
estimate of the high-resolution field of view. Both vary considerably.

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Call those the equivalent of pixels, and assume a perfectly circular
visual reception, and you get between 45K and 636K "pixels". So in
megapixels, that's between 0.045 and 0.636.

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So basically, human vision may be better than the theoretically
calculated resolution, while a digital camera may have less than the
theoretically calculated resolution. It's really hard to compare in a
true apples-to-apples way.

So what you're basically saying is that my idea of plugging a BlueTooth
interface into one's cereberal cortex is impractical until we first come up
with a way to upgrade the eyes to a higher megapixel rating... I guess that
makes some sense - I can't really tell the difference between a 1 MP image
and an 8MP image...

"Judah" wrote in message
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So what you're basically saying is that my idea of plugging a BlueTooth
interface into one's cereberal cortex is impractical until we first come
up
with a way to upgrade the eyes to a higher megapixel rating...

No, not at all. If you come up with a 100% safe means to do that, I'll be
one of the first customers, especially if you include a "last 5 minutes"
video loop buffer. Resolution is not always the most important aspect of
photography.

So, get to work!