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[QUOTE=Marvin Mattelson] It just can not, in any way, compete with the vision of the human eye.QUOTE]
As Cezanne said: "You paint as if you only got one eye"
So does the camera.
Most naturalistic painters paint that way, and that, of cause, is a personal choice based on personal taste. No problem with that.
If we look at the human vision, it is based on the two eyes, helping each other to define distance and volume of objects. I have often seen cats and birds take there heads from side to side to get a more three dimensional picture of the things they are focused on. You define distance and volume through the angles of the individual eyesight.
That meaning, if you want to focus on every detail in a painting ( as the one eyed camera can ) you must accept it as an unnatural way of perceiving. This is not the way we see things. It
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