I'm right-handed but left-eye dominant. It hasn't been terribly important with cameras, but on the shooting range it does make a pronounced difference. I really don't think camera-users notice it much, but when you're trying to sight down a barrel, there is an issue of parallax - same as with point-n-shoot viewfinders. (I had to learn to shoot left-handed, too. I'm too near-sighted in my right eye to make it work!)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: Re: Left eye dominant (was Papa-D) > > Unless you are like me and have MESSED-UP eyes! My right eye suffers from astigmatism and hyperopia; the left from myopia. Without glasses, my depth-perception is great but I can't read very well regardless of distance. my right eye has become so weak that i can look through the camera viewfinder with the left and keep the right open and NOT SEE ANYTHING but what's in the viewfinder; with or without glasses. If i try to look through the viewfinder with my right eye, I have to physically force my left closed and then the view is so wired that composing and focusing is almost impossible. > > what's really difficult for me is that I am right handed, but because of my left eye dominance I have to shoot rifles left handed which becomes very awkward. > > Christian >
