You're a bit young for that aren't you NSX?

If I'm going to be staring at a girl for a while, I might as well be able to see a bit more. :D

NSXType-R said:
What's the point of the spinning girl? She spins in both directions if you wait long enough.

Geez, you need a reason to stare at a girl's silhouette? ;^)

jonny, are you writing your doctoral thesis on this? Oh and by the way Nikon made Ken R. a special left handed Nikon F100 prototype and they just sent me a lefty D4X to field test.

How you like dem apples?

I asked a group of three non-photographers today (unrelated to me to remove genetic bias). All three were right handed and left-eye dominant. So maybe they should make lefty cameras...

I should mention I shoot with both eyes open, especially if I'm using one of my rangefinders, since I can just superimpose the focusing spot into my normal vision, but my left eye is the one on the viewfinder always.

Right

The girl is getting dizzy

Pete

Right!

Right eye dominant. Shoot camera and guns with both eyes open - learned that for situational awareness.

I'm very left eye dominant. I guess I'm very lucky in this regard, since I'm blind in my right eye.

I used to have trouble using an FM body. To keep it turned on, the film winding lever had to be kept half cocked, so to speak. That is, it couldn't be left flush against the body while it was on. I used to poke myself in the right eye all the time while using it. It was enough to take my eye out! It was a good thing I had nothing to lose.

And with the DX viewfinders, I too have to look very hard to see through them, especially if I use my right (wrong) eye. * @ Not sure if an FX finder would help though.

Maybe I should switch eyes and invoke THE FORCE. Who knows what sort of shots I might get then.

Here's looking at you . . .

Cheers,

Paul

Same here, I have her going in both directions.

No, I got right eye dominance with the archery test.

What's the point of the spinning girl? She spins in both directions if you wait long enough.

I kept repeating the archery test and I kept getting both left and right dominance?!

Ok another "test". Which way is this girl spinning? I can see her spinning in both directions.

I am right-handed, and judging by this test (link below) I am also right eye dominant.

http://www.archeryweb.com/archery/eyedom.htm

Quite an interesting thread you started Jonny.

wonder if they will ever make left handed dslrs...

So far we have 7 left-eyed right-handed people, one left-eyed left-handed person, and two right-eyed right-handed people. This is interesting to me and definitely not what I expected. I think it's got to be bias from people not writing anything if they've never had issues.

Left eye dominant, and mostly right handed, although I do some things left handed. I always use my left eye for the viewfinder. Don't yet have a digital SLR, so no issues there. With the old film cameras, where I pulled out the wind level a tad to turn it on, the level always poked me in the forehead, or was against the other eyepiece of my glasses.

Left eye dominant and left-handed, but I do a lot of things righty too. I have a D300 and had a D70 and have had no issues.

jonnyapple said:
So, which are you? Is it the same as your handedness? Do you also have issues with cameras because of which eye is dominant?

I'm left-eye dominant, but right-handed.

My D300's focus selector pad had to be constantly locked because I was always changing it accidentally with my nose. I don't have that problem on my D90, but I have hit the live view button a couple of times on accident—not enough to annoy me like on the D300, though.

Me too!!

No issues with my D200. . .but I have a D17M circular eye piece on it (had to get an import converter from Japan to make it work), so my nose is actually 10mm away from the body, which allows me to leave little nose smear/steam marks on the bottom right hand corner of my Zagg-shielded screen. . .

(I have to hold the record for longest sentence yet with that last one). . .

Jeff H said:
ah hell- that's not what I meant! I'm a teacher for crying out loud! I spent a week with the marines in an educational workshop - you know- we'll give you a good time if you quit telling all your students to go to the airforce.

It was a great time! I probably would've signed up if I wasn't geriatric!

There were 4 active duty marines following us around teh whole week with a MOS of photographer! Awesome!

Hahaha! Sorry I mistook you, Jeff. That does sound like a lot of fun.

Another right handed person, who is left eye dominant. I'm left eye dominant because I have monocular vision (Google it if you don't know what that means). I have the same issue as jonny when it comes to focus point selector on the D300, sometimes. I often will lock it, but I can get away with leaving the selector unlocked when I'm shooting from a tripod.

Left eye, right hand. No problems.

ah hell- that's not what I meant! I'm a teacher for crying out loud! I spent a week with the marines in an educational workshop - you know- we'll give you a good time if you quit telling all your students to go to the airforce.

It was a great time! I probably would've signed up if I wasn't geriatric!

There were 4 active duty marines following us around teh whole week with a MOS of photographer! Awesome!

NikoDoby said:
I usually just keep both my eyes closed when shooting firearms jonny.

Another reason everyone should just stay off your lawn, Niko.

Jeff H said:
I scored 23/25 at 500 yards in the ISMIT range at MCRD - right eyed.

Who needs VR when you're an ex-Marine? ;-) Semper Fi.

I scored 23/25 at 500 yards in the ISMIT range at MCRD - right eyed. Never thought about using my left. But left was closed... and I had blurry vision afterward!

I usually just keep both my eyes closed when shooting firearms jonny. I just keep pulling the trigger because I know that eventually I'll hit something :^)

Yes I'm joking!