Left or Right Eye shooting?

Heres the deal:

I am right handed, and I am right eye dominate, according to the finger to nose, close one eye at a time trick. I shoot (M-16 rifles) with my right hand and aim with my right eye. However, when i shoot (photgraphy) I find myself going to my left eye. Now why this concerns me is when I manual focus, I'm afraid I'm not using my "good eye" to get a correct focus. Of course I've tried to force myself to use my right eye, but it just feels weird. Do any of you have this same experience? If so, whats your insight on this?

alwaySleepy wrote in post #11608342
Heres the deal:

I am right handed, and I am right eye dominate, according to the finger to nose, close one eye at a time trick. I shoot (M-16 rifles) with my right hand and aim with my right eye. However, when i shoot (photgraphy) I find myself going to my left eye. Now why this concerns me is when I manual focus, I'm afraid I'm not using my "good eye" to get a correct focus. Of course I've tried to force myself to use my right eye, but it just feels weird. Do any of you have this same experience? If so, whats your insight on this?

Are your photographs turning up out-of-focus?

If not, then I don't see the problem.

Most cameras are right-eye friendly. Nose to LCD otherwise. I am left eye dominant (and lefty) but have learned to use my right eye.

Born left handed, but now right handed...use my right eye...makes more sense/more comfortable. Plus, I think my right eye is a bit stronger than my left

Cameras are not merely right-eye-friendly, but they truly are right-eye-FRIENDLIER. If you rotate the camera CCW into Portrait orientation (which allows the right hand to have access to the supplemental buttons of the battery grip!) using the right eye to aim allows the left eye to peek around the pentaprism housing so that you can see if you are about to be run into by someone/something...ve​ry useful for shooting on the sidelines of field sports, or when the riot control police move in your direction!

Hmm interesting views, especiallya bout shooting in portrait, I believe I do use my right eye, odd. I've been shooting with my left eye and my pictures dont seem to be OOF, but I'm wondering if i ues my dominate, stronger eye, esp in low light conditions if my pictures would look better.

Chippy569 wrote in post #11608654
Most cameras are right-eye friendly. Nose to LCD otherwise. I am left eye dominant (and lefty) but have learned to use my right eye.

Really?

I have a 40D, and I use my right eye to look through the viewfinder. Controls are on the right-hand side. That all works well for me, since I'm right-handed and I predominantly use my right eye to focus.

But...the LCD screen is on the LEFT side of the camera, in order to keep the controls on the right. So when I put my right eye to the viewfinder, my nose is CONSTANTLY pressing right up against the LCD since my nose is situated to the left of my right eye.

If I used my LEFT eye to look through the viewfinder, then "nose against the LCD" wouldn't even be an issue for me. Because then my nose would be pressing against the RIGHT hand sid of the camera, and that's not where the LCD screen is located.

I fully agree that cameras tend to be right-friendly as far as CONTROLS. After all, the shutter release button and most other important funtional buttons are located on the right, within easy reach of the right hand. But in terms of the LCD, I disagree. Placing so many of the buttons and dials on the right shifts the LCD screen to the left. And for a right-handed person who's "right eye dominant", that places the LCD screen right about in nose position.

At least for me.

I'm glad I'm not the only person thinking about this.
I find that when I shoot with the 100-400 it is easier to aim out to the left side, as you would if holding a rifle, than to hold the big lens straight forward. In this position it's much more comfortable to place my left cheek against the screen and use my left eye.
The only problem I can foresee if having to change the diopter for each eye if they change unequally as I get older.

Humbug wrote in post #11609070
The only problem I can foresee if having to change the diopter for each eye if they change unequally as I get older.

Oh, I didnt even think about this. Maybe I focused the view finder for my left eye when I first got the camera. I havent played with it since than.

I'm right handed and actually had to grab my camera to see what eye I shoot with lol. I shoot with my left eye but I also do archery and shoot a right-handed bow but aim with my right eye - go figure

casp3r wrote in post #11609518
I'm right handed and actually had to grab my camera to see what eye I shoot with lol. I shoot with my left eye but I also do archery and shoot a right-handed bow but aim with my right eye - go figure

I know right!? haha

Right handed and use the right or left eye depending on how I feel..

I'm left-handed ... most lefties approach things differently than a standard right-hander. And it's because so many things are setup for right-handers BY right-handed people. Cameras are no different.

Someone said, our cameras are not necessarily left- or right-handed, but more right-hand friendly. Exactly. I feel it as a left-hander. But since I've known no different and if they made a left-hand model, I couldn't use it!

As a wearer of 'script glasses, I prefer NOT to shoot with glasses on and adjust the diopter (don't anyone with good eyes look through my camera, please!) until what I see is as sharp as it can be. Shoot with left eye, because it feels natural, is my dominant eye and works better than the right!

dave

Humbug wrote in post #11609070
I find that when I shoot with the 100-400 it is easier to aim out to the left side, as you would if holding a rifle, than to hold the big lens straight forward. In this position it's much more comfortable to place my left cheek against the screen and use my left eye.
The only problem I can foresee if having to change the diopter for each eye if they change unequally as I get older.

If you were in the army and had aimed an M-16 with your left eye, you would get hot brass cartridges ejected into the open neck of your shirt at the rate of 600 rounds per minute.

I don't see why your images would be out of focus, if you have adjusted the dioptre setting of the viewfinder to suit the eye you use.