Thursday, September 23, 2010

Reading for Tuesday, September 28: Cow Eye Dissection Guide

Read the Cow Eye Dissection Guide... available on Blackboard, and HERE (download the PDF).

What are the similarities between the anatomy of the eye and the camera? What are the differences (name at least two)?

6 comments:

  1. Similarities include:
    Lenses and rods.
    The lenses are the what both the eye and the camera see through, and the rod [although it might not be called that in a camera] and the rod is a kind of light-sensitive cell in the retina. Rods respond in dim light. Although a camera doesn't have a retina, it is light sensitive.
    Although its not called an aperture, the eye does have a pupil that acts as an aperture. The pupil is a hole that lets in light as does an aperture.
    The lens has a shutter speed. You could call your eyelid and blinking a shutter speed since they both control the amount of light that gets let in.
    Differences include:
    Tapetum: The colorful, shiny material located behind the retina. Found in animals with good night vision, the tapetum reflects light back through the retina.
    Vitreous humor:
    The thick, clear jelly that helps give the eyeball its shape.

    The camera allows you to control the amount of light and how much, but with your eye, unless you're wearing sunglasses. Also, your eye auto focuses on the things you see, and a camera can auto focus, but you can manually focus as well.

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  2. Similarities between the anatomy of the eye and the camera are that they both need a way for light to enter into the light sensitive area, and need a way to control how much light is let in. In a camera you have a lens which can magnify and focus an object, but it also has a aperture to control how much light is let in. The eye is very similar in that it has an iris which also controls light by getting smaller or bigger since we do not have the ability to change our retinas sensitivity to light - the camera does however and this is called the ISO or ASA. Both share a lens, but the human eye does not have a manual focus feature which makes looking at different objects quicker and easier than with a manual focus camera.
    While there are many similarities, there are some differences as a camera does not need both a iris and pupil it just has an aperture built into the lens. Another feature that the eye has that cameras do not is the tapetum because in the camera the light shines through the lens and is recorded directly on the medium, nothing shines through and is rerecorded.

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  3. One similarity would be the retina and the camera eye. Light comes through both of these areas. Once the image lands on the retina the cells there send the message to the brain and the camera does something similar when you press the button to take the picture, it saves the image. Another similarity is the Iris and the FSTOP on the camera. The Fstop is the control of how much light can be let in and the iris is the muscle that controls how much light is let in.
    One difference is that the camera doesn't have a tapetum. There is nothing shining and reflecting light back outward from the camera. Also you can zoom in with a camera lens and you cannot do that with your eye

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  4. Similarities:

    -The eye acts as a lens on a camera; capturing images and spectrum of light.
    -sensitivity to light-retina->similar to the physical action of the aperture.
    -the ability to capture definition within a subject.
    - color/texture
    -the ability to control the amount of light let in- the pupil's expansion in light and dark settings.
    -the corrective-ness in focus: eyes use glasses or corrective measures/ cameras use a focusing mechanism.

    Differences:
    -camera- reliant on aperature to dictate the focus and exposure.
    -eyes have tapetum: which as located behind the retina and acts as light reflectors through the retina.

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  5. some differences is that in a camera is able to zoom in to better view the differences of what is around in the environment and one has better chance of seeing, but the eye is not able to do that also the camera is not able to reflect light using a tapetum, because it has no such mechanism. Similarities are that they both contain lenses that capture images and then it is reversed and send into the system to then be processed and developed.one other thing is the ability the eye and camera can adjust depending on the environment to let in more or less light

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  6. Similarities between the eye and the camera include a lens which can visibly be seen to reverse the image by bending the light that passes through it, and both the camera and the human eye have the ability to interpret this image as right side up, also it seems that the iris of the eye is very similar to the aperture in a camera allowing control over the amount of light that gets through, although its involuntary with the eye. A few differences are the lack of a blind spot in the camera, this is a problem unique to organisms and not the camera. And also the camera has the ability to zoom in on scenes whereas the eye cannot.

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