The eye was the first lens, and it's still the best. The most perfect lens ever made is just a clumsy affair compared to the sensitive, self-adjusting, apochromatic zoom mechanism that functions as the eye.


The Amateur Photographer's Handbook (1973), p. 44 - Chapter 3: What the Lens Does

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The eye was the first lens, and it's still the best. The most perfect lens ever made is just a clumsy affair compared to the sensitive,...

The eye was the first lens, and it's still the best. The most perfect lens ever made is just a clumsy affair compared to the sensitive,...

The eye was the first lens, and it's still the best. The most perfect lens ever made is just a clumsy affair compared to the sensitive,...

The eye was the first lens, and it's still the best. The most perfect lens ever made is just a clumsy affair compared to the sensitive,...