Righty or Lefty?

Righty or Lefty?

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I'm in the process of switching from left to right.

I've just recently discovered I'm able to achieve critical focus faster when I use my right eye and keep both eyes open. Or try to, anyway...

My left eye is dominant and my right eye is lazy, but from here on out I'm not gonna let my dominant eye tell me what to see. No sir! No more sheepish sycophancy of the dictates of my dominant left eye. I say question authority.

My right eye, although lazy and slow witted just needs a good daily workout and some occasional eye candy.
 
OK, I'm beyond late to this thread.
I use diopters for my right eye but if I don't have one for a camera, I shoot left eyed.
So call me ambidextrous ...or to quote Yogi Berra, "he's amphibious!"
 
I am very dominantly left eyed and wish it is in the right eye instead. Just don't like the feeling of hiding behind the camera when I shoot on the street. :bang:
 
Used to love shooting right eye, with my left eye open; I found it one of the really nice things about using a rangefinder. But since I lost my right eye I find shooting through a pirate patch less useful than squashing my nose and shooting left eye. Was really interested to see how many lefties there are on here. When my right eye went bad the first thing I thought was "bugger, that was my Leica eye", but the Leica eye is gone, and the Leica remains 🙂
 
When I started with photography, I got into DSLRs.
Naturally I always used my left eye (right handed), but felt uncomfortable with it, when I got into viewfinder/ rangefinder gear.

Since two years, I only compose with my right eye, so it was kind of an evolution. 😀
 
Right at the moment, which is of course assumed in the Leica M design. However, my right cornea is thickening at an alarming rate compared to the left (Fuchs' dystrophy) and will need a graft years before the left eye. This means that I'll temporarily have to use the left eye at some point, possibly for 18 months until the graft settles down. And then I'll probably need a dioptre, because corneal grafts generally leave you with a need for glasses.
 
Left eye dominate, write with the right hand pre-dominantly and can write poorly left handed. When younger I could switch hit but then over time felt more comfortable batting and golfing as a lefty. I can trip over anything now equally with my left or right foot.

. . . . . have tried the right eye focus with the 'M' on occasion but it is not a natural fit for the time being.
 
Left handed, like my mother and youngest brother. Like many left handers I am somewhat ambidextrous.
Learnt to use right handed school scissors at age 6 and have been right handed with scissors ever since.
Used a computer mouse left handed till I got married, to a right hander. With one computer per household in those days I switched to right.
Play cricket and golf right handed, but can play golf left handed.
Shot with my dominant, very dominant, left eye till I was 36 and acquired a 35mm lens. To get closer to the Leica to see the frame lines I switched to right eye shooting. I now use the left eye again with external finders so my nose doesn't smear the camera eyepiece, almost invariable with right eye framing through SHOOCs and SVGOOs etc.
 
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