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Left eyed

What I’ve not ever really thought about during what must be 20 years of Photography is the fact I’m left eyed.

I mean I’ve thought about it, I wear glasses (sometimes) and my left eye is stronger but I just assumed everyone did it, and cameras were poorly designed with winders (old school) or the LCD in the wrong place, in fact it’s just me being right handed and left eyed. It wasn’t until I had this realisation (a couple of days ago now) and got everyone else in the office to shoot off a few frames so I could see how they did it that people did it differently.

obviously a quick web search brings up loads of people who figured this out a while ago.
PhotoEthanography
Science Daily
Left Eyed Right Handed Blog

And Science Made Simple says is that left eyed people would have to shoot left handed. I am right handed and shoot right handed (not very often mind) but when I used to do archery, I would usually shoot right handed right eyed, but when tired would (accidentally) switch to my left, at the range we were working at (not very far!) changing eyes made a huge difference, but in fact seemed to be just about right to move me one target over, so i would still do pretty well just on the wrong target.

Anyway back on the photography side, I reckon it makes little difference to the picture as the camera is monocular, but I’ll never know if the camera is easier to use right eyed, i just can’t seem to do it.