Isn't it possible that this "white eye" is caused by the retina not getting
enough blood? In which case, she should see an eye doctor immediately.
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Árni R Kjartansson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Olaf Greve <olaf_greve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:39 AM
Subject: [OM] 4Ti Oh, Oh - revisited
> Hi again,
>
> Well, I promised I would keep you guys posted about the results from
Karol's
> swimming event where the 4Ti's batteries had died and I used the flash
> manually (using GN 32 distance-aperture calculations), with the camera set
> to "mechanical (i.e. "red") 1/60th".
>
> Sooooooo, did it work or didn't it?
>
> Well, I'm glad to inform you all that it did! :)))
>
> The pictures all came out, without failures, and the colours seem to be
just
> fine! The only tiny nasty thing I noticed in one of the pictures was that
> Karol's eyes were rather diabolicalish looking. Indeed, they were beyond
red
> and had turned to a brightish white-yellow! However, I have noticed the
same
> effect when using the camera and flash on Auto (when shooting from some
> 10-20 metres), so I don't think that the flash overexposed here, but
rather
> that she is one of those people (I'm another one of those) who often has
> very wide pupils, causing a lot of red eye effect (it's almost always
worse
> on her than on other people standing right next to her). As an interesting
> aside: botk Karol and I have about the same eye-defect (I have on the left
> side -1.25 and on the right -0.75, and she has something like
(resp.) -1.50
> and -1.00), and ever since I started wearing glasses (something which she
> doesn't do yet), the red eye effect on me seems to have diminished...
>
> Anyway, the flash synced well, the colours look good, all shots were
"family
> album keepers", so I'm a happy camper, and I'm glad I remembered (thanks
> Hans!) how to do all this stuff manually! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Olafo
>
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