This, furries, is what your retina looks like.
Many people don’t realize, but when you look into someone’s eyes, you’re literally looking into them! The pupil is a hole, around which the iris contracts or relaxes to allow in more or less light, much like the aperture of a camera. If you were to shine a light into the pupil as you peer in, you would see the back of their eyeball—the retina. This is exactly what ophthalmic photography does. Using a special light that shines directly through the lens of a camera system and into the pupil, we get a glimpse of what’s inside the human eye. The image of the retina is reflected back through the lens and onto a film plane or sensor, and thus, a retinal image.
Also, interesting fact: When you take a picture of someone and they have "red eye," you are seeing the pigment of their retina reflecting back at you.
Many people don’t realize, but when you look into someone’s eyes, you’re literally looking into them! The pupil is a hole, around which the iris contracts or relaxes to allow in more or less light, much like the aperture of a camera. If you were to shine a light into the pupil as you peer in, you would see the back of their eyeball—the retina. This is exactly what ophthalmic photography does. Using a special light that shines directly through the lens of a camera system and into the pupil, we get a glimpse of what’s inside the human eye. The image of the retina is reflected back through the lens and onto a film plane or sensor, and thus, a retinal image.
Also, interesting fact: When you take a picture of someone and they have "red eye," you are seeing the pigment of their retina reflecting back at you.
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I got my doctor all curious because I went in right after an eye appointment where they dilated and numbed my eyes :3 After I told him that, he just had to peer in for his own interest because they don't get many dilated eyes in general medicine. I got shown one of these afterward as a reward. So coooool <3
Eye stuff always squicks me out. It's just such a sensitive part of the body... anything that seems to threaten it makes me want to hide in a corner. If someone got that close to my eyes with a camera I'd probably drop half my weight into my pants. (Fortunately, I'm in the right community for that.)
Haha well there are eight standard fields that are photographed, so if you have someone who knows what they're doing you'll only have to put up with that many. Unless they're shooting stereo, then you'll have to put up with 16 flashes.
We just work around the blinking, no horror movie-type contraptions. xD
We just work around the blinking, no horror movie-type contraptions. xD
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