Left or Right eye, Left or Right hand?

Okay, I was taking photographs with a friend of mine, when I gave her my camera, she was holding it awkwardly (imo) and held it so that the grip on my 5D was down (grip button downwards in portrait style). Then I noticed with was on her left eye, and she held everything upside down. I asked her are you left handed, and she said no.

STRANGE.

You'd think lefties would use their left eye. Then I thought how the eyeballs are crossed in their brain (left eyeball = right brain, vice versa), and I jut thought I'm the strange one. I use my right eye, but I'm right handed.

I think my parents beat the leftiness out of me when I was younger, but I don't remember. Probably traumatic for me as a child.

Anyways, long story short, which orientation do u have?
I'm right eyed, right handed. Just doesn't feel right any other way.

Almost everyone has a dominant eye, as well as a dominant hand.....that is why it doesn't feel right another way. Right eye, left hand for me.

Woolburr wrote in post #12181325
Almost everyone has a dominant eye, as well as a dominant hand.....that is why it doesn't feel right another way. Right eye, left hand for me.

I'm the exact same. Right eye dominate but left handed.

I'm right handed but I end using my left eye for 'visual stuff' like astronomy and photography. I can tell the visual difference from eye to eye. And something about my right eye makes viewing from my telescope uncomfortable.

I'm left eye dominant, and prior to getting an external grip, always shot portrait format shots shutter release down. I'm still getting used to holding the camera for portrait shots now with the grip, and it's less comfortable with it bumping into my nose in that position.

-Pat

Right hand and right eye.

Pure lefty here.

But I've gotten used to a righty world. Going to trim years off my life dealing with the stress of always doing things backwards!

Right & right, guns & cameras.

Left eye, right hand...

same as rjgonzales

Left eye, right hand. Though it seems like cameras are more designed for right eyed people, since that way your face clears the camera body. Nowadays DSLRs are going towards a center eyepiece design though, so it's mostly just rangefinders.

Left eye and right handed for me. If I shoot portrait then its shutter at the top. Feels wierd trying it another way.

i'm also left eye dominant and right handed.

simple enough test for those who don't know

http://vision.about.co​m …nses/ht/Eye_Dom​inance.htm

Left eye, right handed.

I'm left-handed, but with anything that is built in a right-handed orientation, well, I adapt, so I've been long used to using my right hand with cameras, and, as to the original thing, I rotate my camera and shoot in the "old fashioned" way -- I've never put a rip on a camera. So, if you want to hear something funny, when I am shooting with my 1D3, when I go to shooting in the portrait orientation, it takes a bit before I remember that I actually have the dang portrait button!

As far as the eye I use for the viewfinder, honestly I never even realized that a lot of people shot with their right eyes until recent years (POTN "opens our eyes"!). It always seemed normal to view with the left eye -- maybe just because I'm left-eye dominant? It just seems like the design/ergonomic "fit" of cameras makes a left-eye view more "natural", never mind the nose grease!