Left or Right eye shooter?

Left or Right eye shooter?

  • Left open right closed

    Votes: 104 39.0%

  • Right open left closed

    Votes: 114 42.7%

  • both open

    Votes: 49 18.4%
  • Total voters
    267
left eye dominant, but recently switched to right eye when i realised my right eye was much better / sharper. left eye has too much astigmatism, in the right eye the aligned images are sharper when in focus.

the switch took a few day to get used to, now it's 'natural'.
 
I shoot with my right eye. It works well with my Nikon S3 so I can keep both eyes open with it's 1:1 viewfinder. Jim
 
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Lefty Here
I can open or close my right eye, But I tried to focus with it once, but it didn't do so well. Only Left eye focus...
 
Both eyes closed :D!

More seriously, I can use either eye but I prefer the left one, because I find it easier to shoot long exposures (the camera is more stable, being in contact with the nose and cheek).

Cheers!

Abbazz
 
Johnmcd said:
Freak :)

I bat and bowl (cricket), write and kick right handed. But I shoot guns and bows left handed (left eyed). My experience is that there are many more left eyed people than left handed.

John
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I`m left handed for tennis , writing, soccer, surfing, right handed for cricket, bowling, scissors, can use either eye for photography, I`m not confused, i just don`t know what I`m doing! :D
 
I used to shoot right eyed with the left closed or sometimes open, but recently i lost the use of the right eye so now i have to use the left.
It's OK with the rangefinder but not fun with the evil SLR as my right hand and thumb always seem to get in the way.
Could be worse :)
 
RF are done for right eye shooters - because the VF is in the left corner.

If you shoot with left eye with a RF camera, your nose splashes on the back of the box - on the display if it's a digital.

Actually RF cameras are done to shoot with the right eye in the VF AND both eyes open, in order to see all around the frame, catching better the decisive moment.
I can see when I'm shooting people that a photographer with two eyes open and a half-smiling face visible is less agressive for the subject (thinking about street photography).
 
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ok i might mess up the back of the camera but with an slr i keep sticking my finger in to my face ... not nice

maybe i should look at a TLR
 
gekopaca said:
RF are done for right eye shooters - because the VF is in the left corner.

If you shoot with left eye with a RF camera, your nose splashes on the back of the box - on the display if it's a digital.

Actually RF cameras are done to shoot with the right eye in the VF AND both eyes open, in order to see all around the frame, catching better the decisive moment.
I can see when I'm shooting people that a photographer with two eyes open and a half-smiling face visible is less agressive for the subject (thinking about street photography).
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Yes, that is all very well, but it doesn't change the fact that we with those nasty dominant left eyes simply cannot focus with our right eyes. Have tried, cannot do, no way, sir.

But you just gave me an idea... Are there enough left eyes here to persuade Leica to offer a left-eye-drive version of their MP in their à-la-carte program?

(I'm only joking; it'd probably require a major redesign of the camera.)
 
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Tompas said:
Yes, that is all very well, but it doesn't change the fact that we with those nasty dominant left eyes simply cannot focus with our right eyes. Have tried, cannot do, no way, sir.
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It's not my fault…
Maybe you could use the camera upside down? :D
 
gekopaca said:
It's not my fault…
Maybe you could use the camera upside down? :D
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Oh yes, I forgot to mention... I have actually tried that, at home, in front of the mirror. It looks really, really weird, and might scare people even more than anything else. :)
 
I have cornea issues with my right (dominant) eye, so left it is. Otherwise, everything would look fuzzy on bad eye days.
 
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