Photographer Cat Only Shoots Canon

Ella the cat doesn’t mess around when it comes to photography equipment. The kitty, who also serves as a sports photographer for Sports Illustrated, will only shoot Canon.

“It’s all about the autofocus,” said Jan Wassner, Ella’s boss at SI. “The Dual Pixel CMOS AF makes for a faster focus speed in the live view. That’s huge when you’re photographing fast-moving action.”

Plus, Ella apparently has a pretty gigantic lens collection, and there’s no good reason to switch to a new – and incompatible – camera body when she’s already so satisfied with Canon.

There are downsides, though. The AF on some of her older lenses can be noisy enough to spook Ella while shooting. She’s lost a few potentially great shots to scary autofocus motors.

Via Alex Fitzpatrick.

Cat Can’t Control Whisker Cowlick

An area cat named Reginald is reportedly having a devil of a time controlling an unruly case of bed whiskers.

According to eyewitness accounts, Reggie has been battling his whisker cowlick for a couple of weeks. He’s attempted to control the renegade face hairs using a number of methods: combing with the grain, liberal use of hair gel and hair spray, a shorter whisker cut, etc. So far, nothing has worked.

“You go to sleep with wet whiskers one time and you pay for it for weeks,” said the cat’s roommate Jerry Gonsalves. 

Via exoticmo.