On 3/19/06 5:58 PM, "Don Sanderson", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I shot this last weekend and hadn't looked at it. There was a raccoon > in our backyard. I grabbed my camera off the desk. It had the DA 50-200 > 4-5.6 mounted. I zoomed out to 200 and took a shot. But it was too dark > to get any shutter speed, so I popped up the flash and took another as > the coon prepared to flee. This is the result. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4239206&size=lg I seem to remember, while reading about the red eye reduction, that some animals, particularly dogs and cats, have an extra "reflective" layer behind the retina which often reflects the different colour (bluish or greenish). Human eyes of course reflect the blood vessel at retina. If you light dogs in the night, their eyes reflect the light more brightly and that is because of this reflective layer (so I understand). Ken
