Left-Eyed Shooters

Those of you who shoot with your left eye in the viewfinder: do you find that your face gets in the way of your thumb changing options on the back of your camera while you're looking through?

I just learned how to use my nose to turn the dial!
Seriously, no - I do put nose prints on the screen from time to time though.

DrMitch wrote in post #7210452
I do put nose prints on the screen from time to time though.

I'm a right-eyed shooter and do the same

I alternate eyes not cuz of the nasty nose prints, but cuz when i shoot a long BB tourny my one eye I was using would get really tired and start twitching. Thats when I started keeping both eyes open and alternate eyes from time to time...

I have a 450D, and I can reach all the buttons with no problem, except for the exposure comp/aperture button. I have to push my face out of the way to press it, but I don't find it to be annoying.

I've just started using my left eye as I now have some double vision in my right eye..

It is a learning curve, but I have not noticed my big honker getting in the way too much...

I've been trying to use my right eye. Not working too well. I am getting better at keeping my nose off the LCD. Most changes I would make while looking through viewfinder I can do, though I little awkward at times.

just lcd smudges lots of them

I shoot right-eyed, and I find myself putting nose-prints on the screen often enough.

I alternate between eyes depending on the shooting conditions. For example, if I'm pressed up against a wall, I will use the corresponding eye to look into the viewfinder.

Hah! this thread cracked me up.... I have the biggest nose in the world. The screen gets smudged, the buttons sometimes get in the way. I even thought about buying an eyecup extension. Then i just realised that if i tilt my head down a little bit, i dont have to worry. Lol

songexe wrote in post #7210399
Those of you who shoot with your left eye in the viewfinder: do you find that your face gets in the way of your thumb changing options on the back of your camera while you're looking through?

Nope. And my nose tends to place itself between the multicontroller and the wheel, rather than the lcd. I put on a cheap screen protector anyway, just so I wouldn't be constantly cleaning the lcd from smudges and fingerprints.

I'm left eyed. Just walk around with Live view always on, like a point and shoot

Doesn't bother me.

Have you seen the threads polling people which eye they shoot with? Surprisingly they've been about 50/50. Seems much higher than the normal population.

No. If it's a problem, just turn your head a little :lol. I am 100% left eyed and I almost never shoot with the camera pointing straight forward from my body, I am almost always standing sideways on, shooting over my left shoulder rather than straight forward on.