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Why can't we decrease our eye's FPS to get better night vision? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Pantherina@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My phone is normally worse for color gradients and contrasts than my eyes. Also, normally it has worse nightvision.

But when decreasing the shutter speed, for example in OpenCamera, I get crazy night pics.

I see that when its dark my FPS goes down, I see less frames automatically and totally cant control that.

Could this mechanism be altered, to have even less FPS but more photons in the soup to get brighter sight?

Yes, trying to hack my eyes here. "Getting used to darkness" is normally the pupils getting wider, there are quite some interesting plants to do that but I havent heard of anything altering the brains image processing.

Edit

I learned:

in Nightsight we use the rod cells, which take longer to send a signal. That way they capture more photons, but the "FPS" is lower
you can trick your iris naturally to stay open, like the Pirates did (some plants like nightshades also do this, applied locally)

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does your family have light-colored eyes? Lighter eye colors tend to correlate with better night vision and increased light sensitivity.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Basic color is brown and some of us have a lighter shade of brown, slightly yellowish.

My eyes tend to grow lighter towards a green hue when it rains or heavy fogs form and set.

One grandmother used to say we had wolf eyes.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do any of you sneeze when looking at bright lights?

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to my knowledge. I personally am not affected.

[–] Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

My family have a thing for bright lights, we don't like them usually, and they trigger sneezing. No idea why.