[Sandy Hancock]

I am left handed for writing and other fine motor skills, but right handed/footed for throwing, batting, kicking, swinging a golf club etc. I will quite happily use the other if the situation demands (I used to carry a left handed seven iron in my bag just in case)

I am right eye dominant when using both eyes, but I intuitively put a telescope or camera to my left eye. I have been consciously training myself to use the right eye more often for photography as there are certainly times when it makes things easier, like for tracking birds in flight with long telephotos, when I use my left eye to track and my right eye to frame. I am now happy to use either eye.

No idea where this fits in your survey

[K(s)evin]

Learned early on as a TV photojournalist to always shoot with both eyes open, lest ye get run over or miss any action from your left side. The habit stuck when I began shooting stills (as a hobby) several years ago. It is always my right eye in the finder, though.

[virusn3t]

I shoot with both eyes open (i feel claustrophobic when i only see "inside" the viewdinder, plus i can see more thing outside the small VF)

So Right eye for me, when i use the left eye sometimes i pick the right one with my thumb

[fstop18]

Right eye, but sometimes you have to shoot from the hip.(and I've done that literally)

[Elemental]

I'm left eyed and left handed.

I try to shoot with both eyes open but I use the right hand by the shutter to help obscure my right eye vision, seems easier for me to concentrate that way.

[mikeSF]

left eye, left handed

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[pepperberry farm]

left-eyed... my right eye has scarring on the retina, probably from welding...

[ffking]

A brief interim thanks to everybody who's contributed to the survey so far - but keep it coming, please. It's been pointed out that this has been asked before - I wasn't aware of this, but thank-you for giving links to previous surveys(even more so if you also contributed to this one) - in science all genuine data are good data, and this can either corroborate earlier findings or show a possibility that things might have changed over time (for instance - manual film advance was was a real pain in the eye for left-eyed photographers a few decades back - that inconvenience has gone - but the bulk of the camera body has also shifted to the right, giving a better view for both eyes open right-eyed photographers. It's also been suggested that left-eyed photographers are more likely to answer than right-eyed ones. I wasn't aware that left-eye dominant people are more helpful by nature than right-eye dominant people, but that would also be an interesting finding if it were true. My main reason for asking the question is that it's a very interesting topic to me. You almost never see left-eyed pros (in publicity stuff, anyway - is that a matter of training or just that the efficiency of using the the right eye, and therefore having a good view with both eyes as well as the bias of the camera layout - outweighs the disadvantage of not using your dominant eye, or does one eye become dominant through usage, or what? A survey like this won't answer those questions, but I am certainly surprised by how many left-eyed shooters there are out there despite the inconvenience. I know that there is information sharing at the optic chiasma - info from the nose side of my right eye joins info from the ear side of my left eye on the left of mu visual cortex (and vice versa) I think, but I don't know if it's know what happens next, and whether the side of the brain where the info ends up has any relevance to the way the information is further processed. I suppose the point is that if (for example), even despite the disadvantages, left-eyed photographers were more common in the population than left-eye dominant people in general, that would be very interesting and worthy of investigation - but any deviation from the mean is interesting. This won't provide enough data to show that in a statistically valid way, but maybe enough to make somebody interested in investigating further?

[From1980]

I am a left eyed, left handed strange one. I write left handed but do most other tasks right handed naturally. Also, I find I can do many more things than most people I know with either hand. I'm so left eye dominant though that ever since early childhood I never really experienced the benefit of binoculars and now if I see a 3D movie I lose the right image often unless I keep concentrating on it.

[cyclone3d]

Right handed, right eyed.

I never even tried using my left eye through the viewfinder. Then again, my astigmatism is so bad in my left eye that it would be super blurry anyway.

Even my right eye is not perfectly clear unless I am wearing my contacts when using the viewfinder.. even with the diopter adjusted all the way.

[Cold Iron]

I am right handed and right eye dominant. However my son is cross eye dominant right handed and left eye dominant so I have quite a bit of experience in this area. As mentioned earlier it causes issues with shooting in our case it is shotgun and trap and sporting clays. Did not stop him from being class runner up at the State trapshoot at the age of 15 but took a lot of work to get there. Phil Kiner is a famous trap shooting instructor and specialises in cross eye dominance. Many of his students are female, cross eye dominance is much more common in females than males for some reason. An accurate survey with valid methodology would take into consideration eye dominance, hand dominance, and sex. My 2 cents anyhow.

[heathlock]

I shoot with my non-dominate eye. I am right handed. I see the whole composition with my recessive eye not taking an active part, letting my brain do the processing. If you shoot with both eyes open, as most people do, your right (dominant eye in my case), will fight to get out from behind the viewfinder, while your recessive (left) eye is content to stay and finish the shot.

[ripper2860]

Right eye, although I am predominantly left-handed I am very close to being ambidextrous.

[mikeSF]

I am a left eyed, left handed strange one. I write left handed but do most other tasks right handed naturally. Also, I find I can do many more things than most people I know with either hand. I'm so left eye dominant though that ever since early childhood I never really experienced the benefit of binoculars and now if I see a 3D movie I lose the right image often unless I keep concentrating on it.

that describes me exactly too