[Leica] HCB - left-eyed?

[bruce at ralgo.nl (bruce)]

If you only have one eye, then you use it, whichever side, and you  
adapt, I presume, your techniques to maximize the system that for you  
must work ................ most don't even think about it, because  
they have two functioning units.

I am reasonably ambidextrous, and always pick-up apparatus to  
determine how it can best be held. I guess that means that I would  
have taken an Exakta Varex and placed it to my left eye, to ensure  
that the wind-on could be correctly activated by my left  
thumb ............... but since most equipment is manufactured for  
those using right hand and right eye, I follow. Is that my dominant  
eye? I know not. My left eye is better than the right ..............  
without glasses ................ but they both work. So, I use the  
right eye to save scrunching my nose and seeing nothing of my  
subject. Time permitting, I focus, and then look at the subject with  
both eyes, wait and squeeze .......... at what I hope is the  
appropriate moment.

Jeffrey has a much stronger/sharper right eye than left, he says.  
Then. it is surely worthwhile determining whether he can change/ 
reverse a habit to accommodate his vision ............... and benefit  
from placing his right eye to the viewfinder ....................

Maybe ............... put a patch on the "dominant" eye and see what  
the other can do. How does the brain react, can it learn, does the  
weaker become stronger because it must ..................? Tell me.

B.


On 20-feb-2006, at 19:21, Ted Grant wrote:

> bruce offered:
>>>> And you can see where you're walking or who's about to cross your
>> path (assuming every-one/-thing comes from the left), with the  
>> left eye!<<<
>
> But bruce what do you do when yer near blind in the right eye? ;-)  
> You learn to see differently!  And sometimes better. ;-)
>
> You get knocked flying by football players along the sidelines  
> while covering a game,:-) Yes it does hurt! ;-) You always have the  
> chance of missing key moments while moving the camera way from your  
> face to advance film.
>
> That's why I always used motor drives on my SLR Leica's and Tom  
> Abramhamsson RapidWinder's on my M6's and M'7s.
>
> And if someone is left eye dominant and they have shot in that  
> fashion for sometime, then they try to switch to right eye?  The  
> eyes are always fighting to see properly, it can be overcome over  
> an amount of time, some folks may differ. But trying to switch has  
> driven some shooters near crazy fighting with their normal vision  
> because the left eye is dominate.... and it's the reaction of a   
> couple I know to leave well enough alone and shoot as they've  
> always done... left eye!
>
> ted
>
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