Yes, I said the doctor rolled the camera close to my eye and took the picture; he was shooting through the eye to the back of the eyeball. I'm sure I'll be just fine. Sorry to hear about your eyes though, Keith. Cheers, Christine
On Apr 4, 2012, at 5:09 PM, Keith Whaley wrote: > John Sessoms wrote: >> From: Christine Aguila >> >>> Hi Team: >>> >>> I had an eye doctor appointment today, and, of course, had to run >>> through a battery of tests--one of which was photographing the back >>> of my eyeballs. A highly specialized Canon EOS camera was attached >>> to another piece of equipment which was rolled close to my eye. Then >>> a frame was taken, and flash was used. All the digital images were >>> then sent to an lightbox-like screen. I couldn't believe I was >>> looking at the back of my two eyeballs. Very interesting. When I >>> sat down, I joked, "Not a Pentax? Hoya once owned Pentax, ya know." >>> The doctor was only slightly amused. >>> >>> Cheers, Christine/Chicago > > Chances are excellent you were looking at your retinas from the front of your > eyeballs, thru your cornea and lenses. > > I'm assuming that since, for them to look at the BACK of your eyeballs, where > the optic nerve exits, they would have had to come in thru the back of your > head!!! > > I do hope they pronounced your retinas clear and healthy... > > Keith Whaley <== whose retinas are a mess, what with somewhat advanced > macular degeneration. Sighhh. That's why I don't post images to this list. Oh > well... Be well! :-D > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
