Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-05 Thread ellis CORY
Ellis, Actually you are slightly wrong. For colours the official vision angle is 10 deg. If interested in details, look here: http://colour.derby.ac.uk/colour/info/glossary/c/CIE1964Observer.html taco Sorry to be pedantic, I am not wrong, the source I got it from would be ( but I did not

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-04 Thread W. Thoma
ellis CORY wrote: It was good of Gary to resurrect my old question, times have moved on from then and I have gained a lot of useful information. After all, 'meaningless' is in the eye of the beholder ! and for the purposes I required, eveything I have found out is 'meaningful. For those

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-04 Thread ellis CORY
It was good of Gary to resurrect my old question, times have moved on from then and I have gained a lot of useful information. After all, 'meaningless' is in the eye of the beholder ! and for the purposes I required, eveything I have found out is 'meaningful. For those interested AVERAGE values

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-09-04 Thread Gary Nored
On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I know this is not strictly pinhole, but I wondered if anyone had access to the average human eye values for the camera variables. ie Respective - film speed, shutter speed, aperture, focus range, depth of field etc. Thanks Ellis This

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-07 Thread George L Smyth
8:56 PM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye Well, you'll need to speak with my Physiological Psychology teacher of 30 years ago, as that is what our textbook said. We do not see things as continuous streams, but as frames. Cheers - george --- Alan Cangemi ac-t

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-07 Thread Alan Cangemi
regards. Alan (old style) Cangemi - Original Message - From: George L Smyth glsm...@yahoo.com To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 8:56 PM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye Well, you'll need to speak with my Physiological Psychology teacher of 30 years

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-06 Thread George L Smyth
To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye While light does stream in continuously, the brain takes it in similar to a movie camera's film. This is why you may see a bicycle's tires appear to move backwards

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-06 Thread George L Smyth
followed by a refractory period, which would equate to shutter speed, or not. - Original Message - From: erick...@hickorytech.net To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 11:30 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye Here is some information I have. How

Re[2]: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-06 Thread Scott Sellers
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, erick...@hickorytech.net wrote: Another thing occurs to me. The camera analogy is also limited by the fact that camera shutters open and close, while light streams into the human eye continuously. The operative 'shutter speed would have to be the duration of

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-06 Thread Tom Hawkins
Hi all, Here's my bit on the eye/camera subject: Different parts of the visual field are processed by the brain at different speeds, if you notice a TV or a computer monitor in the edge of your field of vision then you can often see the flicker of the scanning beam down the screen (depends on

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-06 Thread Mike Vande Bunt
sure that we have faster 'speeds' built in there somewhere. cheers, Steve [Original Message] From: George L Smyth glsm...@yahoo.com To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Date: 1/5/2003 11:53:02 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread Brian Reynolds
Steve Bell wrote: a little fact that may help: when motion pictures/films were first being made, they were projected at one frame every 30th of a second. this was the slowest the pictures could move without the human eye detecting that it wasn't one, but many frames. so my conclusion is

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread Ray Beckett
George I don't often have anything new or original to contribute to the discussion (and after this post the consensus will probably be 'just as well') but I can confirm that pinpoint pupils (eg from narcotic analgesia) are commonly about one millimetre in diameter, average pupil size is 2-3 mm

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread erickson
: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I know this is not strictly pinhole, but I wondered if anyone had access to the average human eye values for the camera variables. ie Respective - film speed, shutter speed, aperture, focus range

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread erickson
, sequences of still images projected faster than the eye can distinguish, thus blending them into apparent continuous motion. I- Original Message - From: George L Smyth glsm...@yahoo.com To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 10:53 AM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread George L Smyth
On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I know this is not strictly pinhole, but I wondered if anyone had access to the average human eye values for the camera variables. ie Respective - film speed, shutter speed, aperture, focus range, depth of field etc. Thanks Ellis When I

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-05 Thread Alan Cangemi
...@centurytel.net To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??? Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I know this is not strictly pinhole, but I wondered if anyone had access to the average human eye values

Re: [pinhole-discussion] Human eye

2003-01-04 Thread Gary Nored
On 22 Jul 2002, at 11:16, eco...@aol.com wrote: I know this is not strictly pinhole, but I wondered if anyone had access to the average human eye values for the camera variables. ie Respective - film speed, shutter speed, aperture, focus range, depth of field etc. Thanks Ellis Difficult