Eyes - Right or left?

Eyes - Right or left?

  • Left.

    Votes: 158 43.5%

  • Right.

    Votes: 175 48.2%

  • I can use either. It doesn't make a difference for me.

    Votes: 28 7.7%

  • I don't use my eyes (hip shooter, blindness, ... but why am I using a rangefinder?)

    Votes: 2 0.6%
  • Total voters
    363
Right eye here, tried using the left but cant close my right eye independently so I would need an eyepatch, and then I would look like a pirate.
 
Thanks Thomas!
I have not been around because I have been slightly far from photography for last couple of months, but I am coming back slowly :)
 
I'm a right eye shooter, but am learning to shoot with my left eye.
The reason is simply this, that my face doesn't look good when squinting my eye.
(I'm using a 0.72 Leica M with a CV 40/1.4)
 
peterm1 said:
I found this further interesting thread on this topic here -

http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=001144


One of the posts says that I got it wrong - yes the left eye connects to the right hemisphere as I said but it also says that is the "creative" side of the brain. (I thought the left brain was the creative bit.) It does not change my question though - which is whether using one eye or another is better for creativity.
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Thanks for the link, Peter. I find it interesting that RFF shooters have no apparent bias, as far as left-right dominance. At this point it's 116 right and 116 left. I've never studied it before, but I would have guessed there was some correlation with manual dominance.

I actually started a poll to survey left-right handedness recently. I'm wondering if members will differ from the general population, which is about 90% right handed. If they in fact tend to be more left handed, that could be explained in terms of interest in photography. The theory is that right brain dominance enhances spatial cognition, and the enhanced ability contributes to photographic composition skills. People tend to gravitate toward activities they're naturally good at, and thus RFF members may tend to be more than 10% lefties. We'll see. It will probably take a while to get enough responses.

Anyway, it appears that ocular dominance may be randomly distributed. But I wonder as you did, if left-eye shooters would have an edge creatively speaking?
 
Actually I have a bit of a problem. On my rangefinder and my Nikon D70s I tend to use my left eye as I find it easier to hold the camera that way without my nose getting in the way. On the D70s I have set up the diopter adjustment accordingly as my left and right eye are quite different - one being quite short sighted and the other quite long sighted.

I also have a Panasonic L1. This camera has a quite pronounced viewfinder located on the far left of the camera in a way that makes it easier to use my right eye and so I have set up the diopter accordingly. Now I have different usage patterns on different cameras and I keep getting confused depending on which one I am using.

I dont know why I find it easier to use the left eye with some cameras and my right with others. It is something to do with the ergonomics of them but I am not sure what. After all the rangefinder (M3) has the viewfinder in about the same position as the L1 camera and yet I find it easier to use the other eye. Maybe its habit.
 
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Oyy, many lefties here. how do you deal with cameras without rapidwinders?

I like to use left eye but it is so inconvenient to use Leica M then I forced me use the right eye. It works somewhat OK but it gets even better with Rd1 1.0x VF when you got both eyes open while composing and pressing the shutter. I feel that I'm able to follow the situation more with right eye because people tend to relax when the big part of my face shows, not like using camera with large nose pointing out the head if you can imagine.
 
I'm naturally left eye dominate, right handed.

Unfortunately due to ptaosis correction surgery, my left eye isn't in the best shape. It had some surface damage and is a bit like a bad lens; low contrast, ghosting/multiple images, a little skewed, etc. It is almost hard to explain. Over all, it works for composition but not for focus.

I still go to it by default though which is frustrating as I do okay until I realize I'm having problems focusing and shift to the right eye. It is also a little concerning that if anything happens to my other eye, well, lets just say I'll probably just do a bunch more scale focus work.
 
When I was young I started shooting "left eyed" and my Dad pestered me into switching over so I could see with my left while shooting with my right. I'm glad I did as I like the "two eyed" technique on my rangefinder.

Somewhere up there my Dad is smiling :)
 
Left. I'm mostly lefty with a few exceptions. I'm not sure I was originally left eyed, but can't use right eye for shooting anyway because my right eye's retina is not working properly since I was a kid.

Lately, about 50% of RF shooting were done without framing (hipshot, chestshot).
 
c.poulton said:
Left eye - my right eye is a lot weaker and I cannot focus as well. Not really a problem except for nose grease on the back of my cameras - just as well I don't shoot digital as I would forever be cleaning the lcd screen (RD1 excepted)
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Hmm... I hadn't thought of that. Just as well I haven't been tempted to try a digital leica.
 
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