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Should I use my right or left eye to look through the viewfinder?

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Timely post ... I was just thinking the same thing the other day.

I am left eye dominate ... I don't even think about it.

On the other hand, my spiritual adviser likes to imagine the photo in his mind before pressing the shutter release ... thus using his 'third eye.'
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Depends on your camera. Full frame users should definitiely be using the left eye, as it takes advantage of the wider field of view and the larger, brighter viewfinder. That is why most Canon users favor the left. If you are still using DX format, then you are prety much committed to the right eye, for obvious reasons.

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Kaustav S Saikia said:
The pix comes out better with the Left eye with all Dxx or Dxxx
cameras. On the other hand, it's adviseable to use the Right eye for
all D1x and D2x cameras.
All this holds only for the DX crop mode btw.
With FX cameras now, Nikon is still figuring out the best eye option.
One thing thats doing the rounds is that maybe just shut both eyes
and hope for the best...
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Left eye. Easier to smash the camera into your face and steady it that way. After 35 years, I think of my nose as a fat little monopod. :-)
 
I was reading this thread and wanted to see what eye I used. I thought it was my right eye, which it was. I set the camera down for a few hours and forgot about it. Then I picked it up and flipped the camera on its side to take a portrait shot. I held the camera up to my face, and instinctively used my left eye. I tried shuffling it over to my right eye and it felt awkward. So I think I am right eye landscape, left eye portrait. Anyone else find they do this?
 
I'm a cyclops - so I only use my one eye in the middle of my head.

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this is not just an academic question (though the responses are humorous).

i have central serous retinopathy (R eye) and thus when manual focusing i have found that my L eye vision field is much clearer (more attuned to the matte focusing screen) than the damaged R eye.

so it is R eye for sports/AF and L eye for MF/macro.

ironically, i only recently adopted this practice after years of struggling to focus exclusively with right eye.
 
Im a left eye shooter as it seemed natura & always has. IM right handed & left footed if it means anything. Iwill say that on my older D200, (have a D300 also now) my nose kept hitting the selector button and turning on the image stats & that bothered me. I think it messed it up as now I can hold the camera away from me and fire off a shot and it will at times come on by itself without hitting the round multiselector immedidately after the shot. . I took it in to Nikon and they found no problem of course, that's becaue when in shop, , things don't go bad like a car problem when you take it in but my friends and wife see it all the time. Anyway,that's another frustating story, as a professional Videographer, I learned to switch from left eye to the right so I can see what the action is w/ my left while shooting.

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I owned an Exa camera in the 1960's which was built "backwards" from the convention, and was easiest to use left-eyed (and left handed, for that matter).
 
Danny Chua said:
I'm currently using my left eye. Is there a standard rule or good
practice one should use either right or left eye? What are the pros
and cons? And also should we close the other eye or leave both open?
Thanks for your help.
Danny
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Brandi - I also do it that way - I use my right eye - but keep my left open to 'look around' - hard sometimes - but it does help you to see around you more.
Val
brandi said:
I was taught to keep both eyes open because you can continue to see
what is going on around you ( to some extent at least.)
HOWEVER, it takes a lot of "getting used to". ( I cheat and close my
left eye---I use my right eye on the viewfinder) momentarily in order
to insure that I have what I want in my "sights". brandi
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I'm teaching myself to use the right eye, coming from an old F that I used my left eye all the time. It means a LOT less nose grease on the rear monitor. And I hate that grease there.

George
 
I'm like Jim - - I use my left. I've always assumed this has to do with my dominant eye. I occasionally try to use my right - - but it gets all distorted & I end up not seeing a thing. I'm right handed so that's not a part of it.

Guess it might be time for new contacts again..... ;-)

Do what works best for you & don't worry about it. Just go shoot some shots with that camera of yours - - life will go on & you will still be able to shoot no matter which eye you use.

JMHO

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on which side of your brain is more "artistic". A bit of light sarcasm there but studies have shown that the 2 halves of the brain can have different strengths. I use my left eye because that has always been the most comfortable for me. I would suggest that you do the same, use whichever eye you feel most comfortable using.
 
Fo me, I find that the WIFE is more 'dominant'....but that's the story of my life!!!

Like I said before, use WHICHEVER eye FEELS RIGHT!

Otherwise you will spend more time worrying about it and trying to use the other eye and MISS valuable photo opportunities.
Been there.....Done that!

Mike
 
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