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11/01/2004 04:35:20 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by richterrell:
Unfortunately, it feels compltely unnatural to shoot through the left eye. To some degree I guess it always will.
I just tell myself that it's a minor thing when some people are unfortunate enough to not have sight at all. |
That is unfortunate...I can imagine it would be uncomfortable for me to be forced to use my left eye.
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11/01/2004 05:23:35 PM · #52 |
| wow - it actually worked! right eye for me. 'course, when using my camera it's both eyes - the lcd is a lovely invention, i can't remeber how to use a viewfinder anymore... |
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11/01/2004 05:24:12 PM · #53 |
| I look thru the viewfinder with my left eye. I think I'm in the habit of doing it that way because my cameras have had viewfinders offset to the left side, or in the center. |
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11/01/2004 05:26:03 PM · #54 |
Left handed, use my left eye to look through the viewfinder, typically have my right eye open so I can see what is going on too.
Unfortunately the D60 is right eye biased.
Message edited by author 2004-11-01 17:26:41.
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11/01/2004 05:26:10 PM · #55 |
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12/28/2004 11:08:59 AM · #56 |
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12/28/2004 11:16:54 AM · #57 |
right handed, left eye
I'm slightly long sighted in my right eye and short sighted in my left (as I understand, it's the results of a forceps delivery) so I use my left eye for anything that requires close up detail, my right eye just tends to come along for the ride most of the time :)
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12/28/2004 11:18:19 AM · #58 |
i am a lefty, but i hold my camera in my right hand, and use my right eye...never thought of this before
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12/28/2004 11:25:15 AM · #59 |
Occasionally I use my left eye to check the scene while viewfinding with my right, but otherwise I'm totally right eye dominant - and right handed - which makes life a lot easier when using the 20D :o)
Interestingly, I'm a touch more short sighted in my right eye than my left, possibly due to my using the right eye more often...
Message edited by author 2004-12-28 11:25:31.
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12/28/2004 12:02:19 PM · #60 |
Originally posted by jadin:
Originally posted by xion:
Right for the view finder and left for double checking the scene. |
ditto. |
ditto again
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12/28/2004 12:04:19 PM · #61 |
In my experience, for what it's worth, a slim majority of professional photographers I have worked with keep both eyes open; right eye on viewfinder and left eye on scene, and "see" with both eyes. This is especially true of sports photographers. It's a self-defense mechanism on a football sideline, LOL.
It took me a while to learn to do this but I strongly recommend it.
As for LCD "viewfinders", I got one on my Nikon that rotates to any direction, and I virtually never use it. I find it most unsatisfactory. Works good for night shots, works good for reviewing images, that's about it for me.
(robt)
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12/28/2004 03:33:13 PM · #62 |
I use my right eye but don't close my left eye while checking. How? Because I'm blind in my left eye, LOLOL!
Deannda
Don't have much choice |
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12/28/2004 03:48:13 PM · #63 |
| Don't you breath through one nostril at a time too? |
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12/28/2004 03:52:35 PM · #64 |
Originally posted by emorgan49:
If you are right handed you are also not necessarily right footed. If you snowboard you need to know which foot is dominant. To determine it, someone stands behind you and without warning pushes you suddenly forwards. Whichever foot you step forwards with to catch your fall is your dominant one. If you use your left foot, the binding arrangement is called Goofy-footed. |
I hate to disagree, but goofy-foot means right foot foward.
Right hand, left eye, left foot forward.
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12/28/2004 04:07:36 PM · #65 |
I am left-handed.
I'm regular for snowboard, the left foot's forward.
I use my left eye to look through the viewfinder. It's my dominant eye and y find it easy to close my right while having the left open, however, to close the left without closing the right I have to contract all the muscles in the left part of my face.
But I hold the camera in my right hand. I guess that's because every camera I've seen so far has the shutter on the right side. I don't know how I'd hold it if cameras were available with the shutter on the left.
While taking action shots, I like to use both eyes. I can thus anticipate what will be in the frame at a given moment.
Now I'm waiting for one of our math guys to get us a graphic out of this data. A 'DPC Eye Usage Chart' :)
Message edited by author 2004-12-28 16:08:37.
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12/28/2004 04:09:30 PM · #66 |
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by Philos31:
doesn't this have to do with your dominant eye?
Look at an object, make a circle with your fingers of 1 hand (ok sign)
look with both eyes true the circle and focus on the object so you have it in the middle.
Now close one eye, then close the other eye.
The eye that has the object still in the middle is your dominant eye.
Left for me, righthanded... |
We do a similar test with first time archers. You make a triangle using your thumbs and first fingers. Stretch out your arms away from your face and choose an object to look at through the triangle. While focusing on that object, pull the triangle up to your face. The eye that your hands go to is your dominant eye.
There are actually quite a few people who are right-handed and left eye dominant, or vice versa. |
i'm 1 of those ppl.(right handed left eye) which suck since it really messes up my shooting (of guns,archery,etc.[i found out in boy scouts])
but intrustingly enough i shoot(cameras) with diffrent eyes for diffrent things like virtical shot i take with my left eye and horizontal i take with my right this is not all the time but a good portion of it....
i have been to the eye dockor several times since i am a slow reader and they said that bolth my eyes are pretty much equal except for the fact that my left is 1point farsighted strange since i have 20-15 overall vision.
from this i conclude AND IT IS ONLY CONJECTURE, that it does not matter which eye is dominate but which is more adapt for what use.
75% of the time i find my self shooting virts. is when my subject is far away, the same goes for my other eye and macro or moving shots tend to be horizontal its a strange thing and i'm prob. just a nother life form or something but i have been doing some eye tharipy for fun to try and see if i can correct my slow reading and my eyes have become more and more evean over the corse of a mounth or so of doing this i can now nail a bullseye on a 50 yard rang shooting both with my right eye and right handed.
like i said i'm prob. another life form but welcome to my world.
_brando_ btw i shoot most times with bolth eyes- now *edit spelling*
Message edited by author 2004-12-28 16:11:40.
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12/28/2004 04:53:47 PM · #67 |
Originally posted by maxj:
i am a lefty, but i hold my camera in my right hand, and use my right eye...never thought of this before |
Would this have anything to do with the fact that the shutter button is on the right for most cameras? Then again, I'm a righty and carry my camera in my left hand.
I've heard of some people using their right eye, just because if you use your left eye, your nose presses against the lcd and leaves smudges! Personally, I use my left eye and squeeze my right eye closed really tight. Just a habit I guess. It puts me into my own world and blocks off everything else distracting. I also have the bad habit of peering over the camera or lowering it from my eye to monitor the scene since I only use 1 eye.
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12/28/2004 05:53:58 PM · #68 |
I use my left eye, unless I'm shooting the batter at a baseball game and sitting on the third base side.
If I'm doing that I shoot with my right eye, watching the pitcher with my left so I can get the timing.
-Terry
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12/28/2004 06:08:35 PM · #69 |
Originally posted by connie:
left eye, right handed. |
yeh ditto... what she said |
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12/28/2004 06:31:59 PM · #70 |
Left
Always left in all things... |
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12/28/2004 07:10:39 PM · #71 |
When I used to shoot archery, a very good archer taught me to shoot with both eyes open. It had it's advantages, although difficult at first. These days, I don't shoot archery, I shoot pictures, but I take the same approach. Keeping both eyes open. I miss less shots that way as I can see what is going out elsewhere too. I can also see the flash and I never question whether that has fired.
It's not easy to get used to doing, but if you can do it, you will wonder how you ever did it any other way. Good luck! |
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12/28/2004 07:17:56 PM · #72 |
I'm all over the place:
Left Eye
Shoot Left Handed
Through Right Handed
Bat Left & Right
Kick Left |
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12/28/2004 07:37:14 PM · #73 |
| Left eye, left handed, do everything lefty except mousing! I learned to mouse with my right hand when mice first appeared since we shared a PC, and now, I can ONLY mouse right handed. Which actually worked out well when I also had a graphics tablet--mouse right, pen left, keyboard with my toes ;) |
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12/28/2004 07:50:47 PM · #74 |
I'm left eye dominant due to eye problems. My right eye is 20/400 and my left is 20/40. So I'm a tad unbalanced. :)
Clara
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12/28/2004 07:55:30 PM · #75 |
both eyes open almost all the time, right for view finder, left for full vision
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