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Wide Angle Wednesday:  A Cats Eye View

Thanks to Hobbs for setting a another challenging test this week with Wide Angle Wednesday,

So, a little internet research was required.  It seems that cats’ visual fields are slightly wider than ours at about 200 degrees. However, while humans can sharply resolve object at distances of up to about 200 feet anything over about 20 feet will be a blur to a cat. This is all part of cats being able to see so much better than us in dim light, when the ability to see clearly at closer  distances becomes much more important to a hunter.
 
Cats also don't see colours the same way that we do.  Cats' eyes are more sensitive to wavelengths in the blue-violet and greenish-yellow ranges. In other words, cats are mostly red-green color blind, as are many of us, with a little bit of green creeping in.

So here is my interpretation of what a squirrel might look like to a cat as it sneaks up to it ....

(I'm hoping Hobbs will allow this one. Strictly at 35mm this is not that wide-angle, I tried it at 17mm but the squirrel was barely visible.  I tried sneaking closer and the squirrel wasn't prepared to have a cat stick a 17mm wide angle lens inches away from its nose, even for Blip.)

Its been a difficult day trying to be a cat.  I spent some time stuck up a tree - see the extra shot.