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Friday, 26 December 2014

The human eye can detect a Luminance range of one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye

The human eye can detect a luminance range of 1014, or one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000) (about 46.5 f-stops), from 10−6 cd/m2, or one millionth (0.000001) of a candela per square meter to 108 cd/m2 or one hundred million (100,000,000) candelas per square meter.This range does not include looking at the midday sun (109 cd/m2) or lightning discharge.

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