Which eye do you look through the view finder with?

Which eye do you look through the viewfinder with?

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I'm new to dSLR's, in fact I don't even own one yet. :help:

Who uses their left eye to look through the view finder?

I look through with my left eye and last night I was playing with a friends 600D and I found my nose kept hitting my thumb so I had to keep moving my thumb. It was pretty annoying actually. It also meant I basically wasn't taking advantage of the nice grip.

If I put my right eye to the view finder it felt comfortable but didn't look "right" :bonk:
 
Right and I've never even contemplated using the left :shrug:
 
It's all dependent on which is your master eye. Very important when clay pigeon shooting. It's not even to do with being right or left handed because I'm right handed but have left master eye.
 
Can't focus my right eye so it has to be the left
 
Right eye here.

Some famous togs are left eye domimant I've noticed, like Joe McNally
 
chimpsinties said:
It's all dependent on which is your master eye. Very important when clay pigeon shooting. It's not even to do with being right or left handed because I'm right handed but have left master eye.
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same here, left eye [right handed], though don't have any problems with nose hitting thumb, albeit a Nikon flavour camera, small hands but a larger than average proboscis :shrug:
 
Left eye and don't seem to remember having issues with my thumb and nose.

The size of body does make a difference as well though - so does the size of your nose, but we'll not go there :-D
 
Always my right eye, it's awkward and feels all wrong when I've tried using my left.
 
You see, one of the things that drew me towards the canon in the shop was that it just felt so right in my hands. Saying that, I didn't really put it to my eye that much. It makes me wonder I gave the Nikon another shot would it feel nicer against my eye with it's diffrent thumb position?

Maybe the 60D will suffer less from nose clash anyway as it's a tiny bit bigger than the 600D?
 
I right eye sucks, so I use left. Don't really have a problem with thumb, but my thumb is on the shoulder AF on button, so that never would be.
 
When shooting with a single lens reflex i use my left eye (my dominant) and my nose tucks snugly alongside by thumb locking my eye with the camera.
However, when i shoot with my rangefinder's i use my right eye on the viewfinder and keep my left open between shots.
 
i use right most of the time. but also used left on occasions. smaller camera body definitely will clash with your nose.

had D3100, tiny grip and very hard to use left eye. 5D2 now, nose hits the command wheel (left eye) or the delete button (right eye), not a big deal, hand is out of the way with the big comfy grip.
 
Left eye dominant and right handed here too. Makes it a bit of a problem with nose-grease on the lcd screen for a lot of photographers.
 
I'm left handed but use my right eye for the viewfinder.
 
Left eye, leaving my nose to squash against teh rear screen and leaves marks all over it.

Have tried using right eye but camera just feels in the wrong position for some reason.
 
david357 said:
Left eye dominant and right handed here too. Makes it a bit of a problem with nose-grease on the lcd screen for a lot of photographers.
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For us left-eyed girlies, its makeup all over the rear screen - I have stopped wearing anything other than mascara/eyeliner now when working, or I spend half my time having to 'visit the powder room' :bonk:
 
use left eye, im short sighted in left but ok in right, allows me to open both eyes to track subjects when using large zoom ( or a telescope )
 
My right eye is marginally weaker than my left but still well within the dioptre adjustment range of the D700 and I often wear a contact lens in it anyway. However, I still use it (right eye) when looking through any viewfinder.
 
Can and have used either
 
right to focus then somehow I have to open both eyes to see the surroundings.
 
I use my right but them I am right handed and right eye dominant. I used to be a rifle shooter and it is quite critical for that to know.

If you want to check which eye is dominant try this:

With both eyes open hold a finger at arms length
Align the finger with a far off object, a tree, lampost etc
Now shut your left eye and see what happens to the image.
Now swap eyes so your right eye is closed, the left open.
With your dominant eye the finger will still be aligned with the object
With your non-dominant eye the object will appear to shift to one side.

It is possible to be right handed but left eye dominant and vice versa.
 
Left eye; nothing to do with dominant eye I just can't blink with it so have to use it.

Your question did make me try shutting each eye and dummy hold an imaginary camera to my face to check though!
 
Tricky01 said:
Left eye; nothing to do with dominant eye I just can't blink with it so have to use it.

Your question did make me try shutting each eye and dummy hold an imaginary camera to my face to check though!
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And what eye is dominant after you did the test? You'll probably find that you've only ever learnt to close your right eye as it feels odd to look just out of your right eye so you've never done it. You can retrain yourself to be able to just shut your other eye. It feels very strange at first and you'll probably never feel 100% correct.
 
Right eye here,i was born left handed,but when i started school they used to hit you across your knuckles if i used my left hand,so i had to start useing my right hand to write :)
 
It's either for me - depends which way I am shooting, if that makes sense.

I'm not really left or right handed either. I write with my right hand, eat left handed, catch left handed, throw right handed...

But I am not ambidextrous....
 
I'm right handed, right eye dominant using the finger shift test and use my right eye with the viewfinder. Shooting with my dominant eye means if I keep both eyes open I can keep the focas point over the top of what both my eyes see - handy when you're watching something before lifting the camea up as you're straight onto it.

I get nose prints on the LCD. I've tried gaffa tape and a lens cloth but I just look stupid.
 
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Left eye and turn body upside down, flip image back in pp
 
Meno said:
Left eye and turn body upside down, flip image back in pp
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Does that mean you have to operate the shutter with your left little finger??? :shrug:
 
OutLore said:
It's either for me - depends which way I am shooting, if that makes sense.

I'm not really left or right handed either. I write with my right hand, eat left handed, catch left handed, throw right handed...

But I am not ambidextrous....
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous :D
 
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