Hi,

This may be a stretch for a bunch of us no good woodworkers, but I couldn't find a good starting point for Google'ing.

This topic comes from the art world. I was re-reading modern art history movements and, of course, Cezanne comes up. For those that don't know, Cezanne is famous for 'painting with two eyes'. He spent his entire life trying to paint this way. To be honest, I've looked at a few of his works and I don't totally get it. The extreme of this idea comes thru with Picasso, who tries to show all sides of an object on one plane.

Regardless, it made me wonder why cameras use only one lens. Starting out with one lens make sense, but we have made huge leaps in technology and we are still choosing one lens. I'm wondering why. There must be a good reason for using only one lens instead of two. One would think we would want to re-create our vision instead of creating a kind of false vision.