mindspring wrote:
>
> For my first 1 1/2 years of cat pictures, I limited myself to daylight and
> room light only no flashes because of red eye.
>
> But then I made a fantastic discovery, along with another list member a
> short while back.
> The color of the T20 and T32 does not cause red eye, even close up flashes
> directly into the eye of the cat! This has now opened up a whole new
> shooting ground of being able to catch the cats in their photogenic times,
> which usually isn't when I have good natural light.
>
Because of the reflective tapetum of the cat's eye (and other carnivore
eyes) the reflection from the eye is usually green or yellow green and
not red except for an albino which will reflect red.
Jerry Liles
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