Genesis of my interest in cameras

Fundamental/Beginners mind musings:

Genesis of my interest in cameras:

# Binoculars -> Cams -> Smartphone cams 

It all started with binoculars in 7th std (where I gave a passionate discourse to Vinay about it).

# The visual sense comprises 60% of the brain sensory processing centers.
While I can see far and wide 5km, 

Hearing and smelling is only 10m,

And taste and touch are only on contact.

# That is why the interest in tech to extend the senses - first visual and hearing, then touch, and finally taste and smell.

When it comes to our own sensory memory - image/video/audio takes the top place, then even touch memory is fairly high, but taste and smell memory is almost 0.

# Cameras go a step even beyond binoculars/monoculars/microscopes/telescopes.

Because they have the great ability of "memory" (both image and video memory).

They can actually not only extend the visual sense by a factor of 10x-80x but also store it as an image or video.

# I was also interested in audio zoom, which is at its infancy now.

We would have to use lasers (like what they did in the cold war time) to point at something and get the sound waves fro there.
So that covers the top "RANGED senses" of seeing and hearing.

Smelling is also the next ranged sense.

Whereas tasting and touching are only on-contact senses.
# So having a camera with you is like a massive tool for visual extension and visual memory both in images and video.

# Then comes things like sound recorders, which may not extend yet, but they can record.

So that explains my interest in "image/video/sound capturing/extending/recording"
# I am also interested in collecting memories in general.
This simply extends itself as my interest in collecting images/video/audio (collecting all the images in memory to make myself richer while also having access to all of it anytime).
Also since this is digital (vs analog), I can understand everything with an exactness/clarity/detail level that is otherwise not possible.

So I try to understand everything to its finest extent, in this case, to the level of pixels.
This also ties in to my interest to transcend time and space.

For instance, I can view images/videos of what I did 10 years ago, or I can watch a YT video of a song video I heard and saw in childhood.
All of these tools help me overcome many of the limitations of time and space.