Flash photography saves girl's life

[Tasmaster]

Facebook saves girl's life after family friend spots eye cancer on mother's photo | Mail Online

Really scary story that will probably pop in the back of my head every time i need to correct red eyes in a photo or take flash photo of a cat... none of which happens often at all. But i do look at photos of friend's kids on Facebook.

As a sidenote, wikipedia picks this wording to describe the effect: "red eye may be a sign of retinoblastoma" - but i have stopped bothering with them a long time ago :roll:

Best wishes to the little girl, and may you never see that in one of your photos!

 

[LaFoto]

Wow, that is interesting! And who would have thought that amateur direct pop-up flash photography could have anything GOOD about it, but here it certainly did! (WHEN spotted by the right viewer! I wouldn't have known!)

 

[edouble]

I did not know this! Interesting.

 

[Corry]

I've actually heard about that happening before. Quite interesting!