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			| ProfessorF What's a life? 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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   | Just as simple as the title suggests, are you left or right eyed?
 I'm a lefty as far as seeing goes.
 
 
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			| steve74 Doesn't have much of a life 
					Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm
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 Location: Manchester
   | I tend to use both*  *unless I'm picking my nose, then it's a leftie too._________________
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			| HeatherKay Moderator 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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 Location: Here, but not all there.
   | I'm a righty, even though my left eye is the better one.
 It's simply impractical to use the left eye with my DSLR and not have my nose and right side of the face completely in the way of the controls.
 
 *shrug*
 _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter.  "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi. 
 
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			| steve74 Doesn't have much of a life 
					Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:43 pm
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   | Ah right, it's a photography thing, then? _________________
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			| timark_uk Moderator 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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 Location: Belfast
   | You use your eye to pick your nose?!? Mark
 
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			| nickminers Occasionally has a life 
					Joined: Sun May 03, 2009 7:59 pm
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 Location: UK
   | I'm right-eyed, which is apparently unusual for someone who's also right-handed.
 To test, point at a distant object, then close each eye in turn. The eye in which the finger is lined up with the object will tell you whether you are left- or right-eyed,
 
 
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			| rubicon Occasionally has a life 
					Joined: Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:58 am
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   | I tend to use my left eye looking through the viewfinder, although I always keep both eyes open (a snapper at work once told me that and it does make a difference). 
 
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			| saspro Site Admin 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm
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 Location: location, location
   | Apparently I'm left eyed then, although I use my right when taking photos
 
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			| Fogmeister I haven't seen my friends in so long 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm
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 Location: Getting there
   | To test which eye you use for seeing do the following...
 With both eyes open, find a vertical line (edge of a brick wall or something) and hold your finger up to it.
 
 Now shut your left eye.  If your finger has moved off the line then you are left eyed, if not, you are right eyed.
 
 
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			| HeatherKay Moderator 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:13 pm
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 Location: Here, but not all there.
   | That's me. If I'm using my super-whizzy angle finder, though, I can use either eye because my face is away from the back of the camera. When using the viewfinder normally, I find I push my right cheek against the LCD, and look a little to the right through my right eye. I still can't see all the info in the finder, though, because I'm blessed with specs.   _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter.  "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi. 
 
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			| paulzolo What's a life? 
					Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm
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   | Right eyed. However, it’s also the one with the astigmatism, which I am finding makes focussing a camera harder (the dipotic doesn’t seem to help in this issue - stuff close up is out of focus without the glasses). So I have been training myself to use my left eye, which is becoming more of a habit. Makes accessing some of the controls on the DSLR harder. 
 
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			| Fogmeister I haven't seen my friends in so long 
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   | Both of mine are +2 cyl    and -3 sph     (IIRC) Basically short sighted and astigmatic.
 
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			| John_Vella I haven't seen my friends in so long 
					Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am
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   | I am also right eyed and right handed. I also tried using the Dioptre adjustment lever on both the F60 and F65, (both Nikons) and can now take pictures without my glasses on! Yay!  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE  - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker   Sorry   I'll behave now. Promise   
 
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			| EddArmitage I haven't seen my friends in so long 
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   | I'm right. Always. 
 
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			| timark_uk Moderator 
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