Thursday 15 March 2018

vision - What is the equivalent of shutter-speed in Human eye?


I just learned that in video cameras, every frame of the video has its own shutter speed.


shutter speed vs framerate


And I know how frame-rate in human eye works out, well, not completely, hence the question.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate




The human eye and its brain interface, the human visual system, can process 10 to 12 separate images per second, perceiving them individually.



How much (or what is the equivalent of) shutter-speed in those individual images?



Answer



The light receptor of the eye is a protein called Rhodopsin. To me the equivalent of shutter speed for the eye is the (de)sensitization of rhodopsin by phosphorylation. The brighter the light, the more sites on rhodopsin are phosphorylated, diminishing the intensity of the signal coming from the photo receptor via the transducin G protein that conveys the visual signal onward.


This process takes a few seconds, but then its possible to see when stepping into sunlight or in a darkened room.


This is more like a volume knob than a shutter speed since the same signal comes out at the same rate of each light sensor, but it has a similar effect - it modulates the intensity of the image.


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