The 'eye' makes many more adjustments. If you have ever taken a photo of a sunset you will realise that the camera tends to make the image very red. Sadly the 'eye' (meaning the brain) changes the perceived tone of the image to filter out excessive redness; this way we miss many beautiful sights that only the camera can record. On other occasions when there is so much colour contrast in the sky that the 'eye' is unable to adjust, we see the sky as a multicoloured image - sometimes more varied than a camera has the ability to capture.
This phenomenon can be most easily seen when a camera is taken from a room lit with an incandescent bulb to the outside where the sun is the only light. The inside shits tend to be very yellow or with a slight redish, unless a flash is used. An industry has developed to sell various filters to mask out these inconsistencies, and they do a reverse job of the adjustment done by the 'eye'; either a daylight filter for outside to tone down blueness or one to adjust for none flash images. Mush of the same effects can be achieved by photoshop. On Aug 4, 5:02 pm, Georges Metanomski <[email protected]> wrote: > The essay "MOON ILLUSION AND REALITY" has been uploaded to > > http://findgeorges.com/ROOT/WRITINGS/ESSAYS/moon_illusion_and_reality... > > It deals inter alia with the famous "Is the moon there when I'm not > looking at it?". > > Georges -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en.
