Kamera dan (Ni'mat) Mata

How camera works, is probably a snapshot of how our eyes works.

There are 3 main elements in the camera, to set up exposure.
Aperture. Is like "Iris" on our eyes. The big or smaller opening, depending on the light conditions.
Shutter Speed. How fast or slow, that the shutter opens up. The
ISO. Sensitivity of the sensor to lights.

Imagine this context:
Night time photography.
To get decent exposure you have couple of options:
1. Long shutter speed. And thus, you have trail behind your subject (if your subject is moving that is).
2. Open up Aperture. Like what our Iris does when the light subdued.
3. Increase ISO. With the risk of having "noisy" or "grainy" image.
All with using steady tripod to minimize camera shake, otherwise the image will be blurry.

The current tag price, for the most expensive digital SLR is Canon 1Ds Mark III, with a retail price in Aus: AUD$10,000, body only. or in Indonesia, retail price of Rp 66,000,000.
With this, you have a decent ISO Performance (very low noise image). This development of great ISO performance is just recent.
Usually, you'll have blotches of noise / grain, soooo bad, you loose details of the image. You dont even want to see it.


Consider the context of our sight.

Imagine, if we are to walk around at night time, and suddenly, all images that are captured by are eyes, are full of noise. Perhaps it'll be great if we can switch it to Black and White, to get that Artsy feeling along the way. But no. That wouldn't feel like it.
Or, suddenly some strange individual walk past you by (during night time again), and you can see the trail of light following that person; like this one here, if you dont see what I mean:


Or, imagine if we have to consistently, and manually switching "White Balance" everytime we going into different light conditions, to get a "desirable" view of the situation? Can you imagine, walking into a person in daylight, and you have a "tungsten" mode in your eyes? You'll be like talking to a blue alien infront of you. I'll definitely run away as fast as I can man!


Our eyes dont need tripod to keep it free from shaky images. Our eyes dont get noisy/grainy when the lights are subdued.

There are things in life that we keep taking for granted.
Eyes ... is just a small part of it.

Imagine, if the food we eat, we have to convert them ourselves, manually, to become energy, flesh, blood, and all there is to eat, just from food.
Man, we'll be too busy doing just that, we can't continue our life as we have now.


There is a hadith regarding a pious man, asked by Allah, how do you want to enter Paradise: by his actions, or by Allah's Mercy?. The pious man answered: by my actions ya Allah.
Then, Allah's put the blessing of the eyes on one scale, and all the good actions on another scale; the blessing of the eyes, outweigh the goods actions of the pious.

We dont enter Jannah because of simple of our actions.
It is because of Allah's Mercy and Blessing.

Our Ibadah to Allah, is not because Allah is in need of our worship. If all human being and the jins are all too worship Allah, this will not increase His Kingdom in anyway. if all human being and the jins are to become as evil as they can, this also will not decrease His Kingdom in any way whatsoever.

We are trying to be a thankful Servant of Allah. Thanking Him, for all His Blessings, that are countless in many ways.



Wallahu alaam.



Wassalaam
Sidqie