Eye v. Camera– What Each Captures

The articles lay out a description of the functionalities of both the lens through which we as humans see things, our eyes, and a camera. What I found interesting from the readings was the point that if we look at something through our own eyes and someone else looks at the same thing through their own eyes, we may see something totally different. Say we take picture and capture the object with a camera, it's still the same thing. What's interesting about this, though, is that although it may be the same image, how we see it may be completely opposite from each other. This is because of our own human bias, perspective, and backgrounds.

I have some reservations in agreeing with Vertov, when he states that the use of the camera as the Kino eye is more perfect than the human eye by saying:

"The position of our bodies while observing on our perception of a certain number of features of a visual phenomenon in a given instant are by no means obligatory limitations for the camera, which, since it is perfected, perceives more and better. We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera."

Where I struggle with this is the fact that what is perfect is completely objective. By endlessly perfecting the camera, or editing the photos, or changing the lenses, focus, etc. where do we stop? How do we draw the line between perfecting what can be seen and changing it completely? If the angle a person stands to view is different from the angle the camera sits at, then the two visions are no longer comparable as more or less perfect because they are two completely different images.

Another thing that bothers me about the camera observing more perfectly than the human eye, is that someone has to see the observation to compare it that of the human eye's and at that point, there will be bias. There has to be opinion there, and no opinion can be deemed perfect or not perfect.

The image below reminded me of theme of articles and perception of images; it's the same image, but different people will see different things, and while the camera may capture it for what it is, someone has to view it.