paper still works!
So I was at Mother's Day dinner at my grandmother's house, and of course my aunts and uncles are there. As many of you know I like to have "discussions" which more people take as arguments, but I always find them enlightening for me or for whoever I'm talking with. You should also know I get this argumentative character trait from my uncle Matt, whom I was chatting with this evening. (maybe you can see where this is going) So he's got a lot of eye problems one being a cataract on his eye, and we got to talking about the mechanics of the eye after he explained to me he would get a new lens in his eye. So I ask how can they do that since it has to be flexible and moveable, and all that? Then he says, "The eye is perfect, it's the way nature/god made it." I say, "Well, the lens has to move or change shape to work properly." He says, "No, it work perfect, there's no moving parts."
Ok...I've been doing photo for what..7 years now? I'm pretty sure the eye's optics don't escape the same rules as a camera's. So after trying to explain some basic optics to my uncle...and without the ability to go look it up on the net as I often do with Bo...I went looking for an encyclopedia...yes...a BOOK. Probably faster than I could have found it on the web I had my answer and read it allowed to now the whole room of people talking about how the eye works. No need to quote it here, I was right. So now everyone knows how the lens of the eye really focuses on objects. Tiny muscles that stretch or squeeze the soft lens to bend the light differently. Honestly, the eye has GOT to be the most complicated thing in the entire body. I really don't understand how most eye doctors aren't even real doctors at all. Maybe they're more like electronics technicians, haha!
Ok...I've been doing photo for what..7 years now? I'm pretty sure the eye's optics don't escape the same rules as a camera's. So after trying to explain some basic optics to my uncle...and without the ability to go look it up on the net as I often do with Bo...I went looking for an encyclopedia...yes...a BOOK. Probably faster than I could have found it on the web I had my answer and read it allowed to now the whole room of people talking about how the eye works. No need to quote it here, I was right. So now everyone knows how the lens of the eye really focuses on objects. Tiny muscles that stretch or squeeze the soft lens to bend the light differently. Honestly, the eye has GOT to be the most complicated thing in the entire body. I really don't understand how most eye doctors aren't even real doctors at all. Maybe they're more like electronics technicians, haha!