Parcing eyes: how do you do it?!

[kewzoo]

There's so much talk about eyes--eclipse, and marble and snake eyes, etc. But..but, I confess, I can't really see them! I mean, what do people do? Their eyes are are, well, small. Especially hatchling eyes. On a couple of my adults' eyes, I can clearly see the nice vertical pupil. The hatchlings look pitch black. Is it just a matter of time before the eye will be readable? Do people usually photograph the eyes and then study the photos to see patterns, etc?

Or does this simply mean that I really must take that glasses prescription in and have it filled?

(by the way, what kinds of cameras are being used to capture those very close-up eye pictures I've seen? Can it be done with a cell phone?)

Thanks for any tips

 

[acpart]

Can't give you any advice about taking pictures. In some cases it makes sense to wait till they get bigger. Otherwise it either becomes obvious or you can use a magnifying glass. It's unlikely that the eye differences will show up with no genetic predisposition, though I do have a male normal-eyed Tremper born 2004 who produces snake eyed offspring when paired with an eclipse (eclipse gene was not known in 2004).

Aliza