Your Eye's Dynamic Range

Part of Limitations You Should Know About Your Digital Camera (Or Phone)!

Your sensitivity is more than 1,000,000 to one, which in camera talk would be about 20 f-stops (each time you change the aperture (or the size of the hole that lets light into your camera) by one f-stop, you are letting in twice (or half) as much light). Your eye's dynamic range could exceed 24 stops, according to Cambridge In Colour. Cameras are good for 5 to 11 f-stops, with DSLRs being at the top end of that range. Your monitor may be good for eight stops, and a printers can handle a range of 100:1 or just over 6 f-stops.