http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/03/why-the-eye-is-better-than-a-camera/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/03/why-the-eye-is-better-than-a-camera/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 21:00:25 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=10057 The human eye long ago solved a problem common to both digital and film cameras: how to get good contrast in an image while also capturing faint detail. New experiments by UC Berkeley neurobiologists show how the eye achieves this without sacrificing shadow detail.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/03/why-the-eye-is-better-than-a-camera/feed/ 0