why is it that what i hear and see is "more sensitive" than what a camera or a microphone records?
i have a basic understanding of how cameras and microphones work, i did some googling before asking this.
but, consider a phone camera in a dark room. it lacks the ability to appropriately capture the visual information that i am seeing with my own eyeballs.
obviously the information is there, and a night vision camera or something very expensive could better capture it, but what precisely are my eyes/brain able to do that the camera is not?

with sound, why can i hold a conversation with someone next to me at a loud concert, yet a microphone is blown out?
why, in a forest, can i hear birds chirping, yet the microphone cannot?

why can i experience this "large" dynamic range, yet i cannot accurately capture it?

of course, there are devices which can more astutely capture the tiniest deviations in air pressure more sensitively than the ear, as well as detectors capable of recording a single photon, but what is the practical reason that consumer electronics are eclipsed by the human body right now?