Both Eyes Open?

denmark.yuzon

denmark.yuzon

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Do you shoot with both eyes open even if your VF magnification is not 1:1?

I find it hard to open both eyes with my Konica Auto S2 when focusing..
 
I try to when shooting people. It adds some life when they make eye contact with a human rather than stare into a lens.
 
I used to be a left eyed shooter when I was shooting with an SLR.. but I shifted to the right when I got my RF.. I'm trying to open both my eyes, but it's really hard to do when the VF is not 1:1 magnification..
 
I shoot with my left eye with right eye open so that I don't have to close any one eye when shooting. Tried shooting with my right with left open....doesn't work for me and don't see the point of it except that it supposed to be a rangefinder thing.
 
left eye shooter, shoot with both eyes open (squinting/shutting one eye is annoying and gives me a headache)
 
I do. I do it with a dslr too. I think I started doing it when shooting racing and wanting to see what was coming into the frame. I just got used to seeing what's around me. I don't do it 100% of the time though.
 
Only with the 50mm 1:1 finder..

Can't get it to work with the 28mm finder. Not because of the magnification, but because of the barrel distortion; the views just don't line up..
 
With either .72 or .91 I close the left eye first to orient my right eye to the view and then open my left eye as a secondary view. Doing that lets me keep both eyes open while allowing my brain to stay focused on what the right eye sees.
 
ItsReallyDarren said:
With either .72 or .91 I close the left eye first to orient my right eye to the view and then open my left eye as a secondary view. Doing that lets me keep both eyes open while allowing my brain to stay focused on what the right eye sees.
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I tried doing this but eventually i get distracted with all the overlapping images that both of my eyes see.. and the fact that I always lose the RF patch... hahaha..

using an SLR/dSLR.. its fine.. no headaches..
 
denmark.yuzon said:
I tried doing this but eventually i get distracted with all the overlapping images that both of my eyes see.. and the fact that I always lose the RF patch... hahaha..

using an SLR/dSLR.. its fine.. no headaches..
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It took me a while to get used to it. I kept my attention on what was going into the right eye and used that to focus and compose. I keep my left eye open but let it stay blurred or unfocused, everything looks a little blurry from my left eye but I mainly keep it open to look for movement coming from the sides.
 
Those humans whose eyes are correctly aligned and whose nervous systems are in order are blessed with binocular vision: but that may not be such a blessing when one eye is at a camera's view-finder.
 
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