Some differences between the human eye and a typical digital camera:
- resolution varies hugely over the retina
- color sensitivity varies hugely over the retina (you can't see color outside of the fovea)
- the optic nerve has only about 1M ganglion cells (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_nerve#Structure), so there is significant 'compression' very early on ("In the fovea, which has high acuity, these ganglion cells connect to as few as 5 photoreceptor cells; in other areas of retina, they connect to many thousand photoreceptors.")
- bandwidth of the optic nerve is estimated at 10 megabit per second (https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/uops-prc0726...) (1)
- that is very soon further compressed; I can't find decent estimates for what can be consciously seen, but am sure it is less than 1kB/second (corollary: photographic memory doesn't exist)
=> "The eye is not a camera" would be a better answer.
(1) as with almost all of these estimates, a factor of ten is nothing.