Unused eye open or closed?
Aug 5, 2019 16:03:27 #
nadelewitz wrote:
This is as old as the existence of eye-level viewf... (show quote)
Well I'm right eye dominant and my left eye has a blind spot in the center. I close my left eye when shooting a DSLR, rifles and pistols. Funny, using shotguns, my left eye is open.
Aug 5, 2019 16:11:38 #
I'm right eye dominant, and I leave my left eye open a good majority of the time so I can see what's going on in a wider field of view. I'd say probably 85-90% open. Definitely not 100%. I do close my left eye if I want to explicitly concentrate on the viewfinder.
Aug 5, 2019 16:57:47 #
nadelewitz wrote:
So, do you close the unused eye?
No, don't have to. The unused eye just blanks out.
Aug 5, 2019 16:59:36 #
juan_uy
Loc: Uruguay
I use my right-eye (dominant one) to shoot and close the other one. I have tried leaving the left eye open, but I don't get used to that. When trying, the left eye has part of the camera in its line of sight and therefore is not comfortable.
Or maybe I didn't try for long enough :)
Or maybe I didn't try for long enough :)
Aug 5, 2019 17:14:35 #
Mr Bill 2011
Loc: southern Indiana
nadelewitz wrote:
This is as old as the existence of eye-level viewf... (show quote)
I always shoot with both eyes open; learned that way shooting firearms. It helps with camera especially with finding and following moving subjects, and seems to help with balance if I don't have something to lean against.
Aug 5, 2019 17:50:44 #
Having worked for over 40 years for Ophthalmologist, I'll just say that you might be trying to focus using your eye muscles (accommodation) if you are under 40ish. Over that shouldn't be a problem. I think it's a good point to keep both open in sporting events as prior mentioned. (Never thought of that.)
Aug 5, 2019 18:05:14 #
Same as with telescope on a rifle or a microscope, leave both eyes open. It's not difficult to train your vision to look through one eye or the other. Both eyes open leaves you free to encounter anything else that is happening.
Hardy Morgan
Hardy Morgan
Aug 5, 2019 18:11:34 #
Architect1776 wrote:
I close my unused eye.
Never heard of it for cameras.
In shooting firearms yes you do it and shoot left or right handed based on your dominant eye not whether you are actually right or left handed.
Never heard of it for cameras.
In shooting firearms yes you do it and shoot left or right handed based on your dominant eye not whether you are actually right or left handed.
I'm right handed, left eye dominant, great combination. In a previous life I used a sawed off shot gun and custom hard chrome 1911.
Aug 5, 2019 18:37:56 #
To be honest I never noticed. I suspect I close it rather than see a blurred camera back.
Aug 5, 2019 19:13:11 #
I am right handed left eye dominant so I use my left eye for the view finder. With my Pentax K50 the right eye is blocked by the camera.
Aug 5, 2019 19:21:06 #
I usually keep the unused eye closed EXCEPT in certain situations (e.g., BIF) I used the other eye to help track where the birds will go/come from.
Aug 5, 2019 20:39:47 #
First, I am left eye dominant, so my right eye is blocked by both the camera body and my right hand. I just lifted the camera up to my right eye and the camera body blocks my entire view of the right side with my left eye. Shooting a gun with open sights, I keep both eyes opened so I have a full field of vision above the gun barrel. I doubt there is any advantage to keeping them both open shooting a dslr camera.
Aug 5, 2019 20:45:46 #
Aug 5, 2019 22:49:52 #
Many firearms coaches now advocate keeping both eyes open, with the dominant eye, obviously, getting the sight picture. Part of this is, perhaps, a situational awareness issue, but some contend it reduces eyestrain. I actually tried it in target shooting and it was beneficial. Now that this has been brought up, I am going to try it shooting pictures - a lot more fun.
Aug 5, 2019 22:50:44 #
both open for me. Extensive video camera use and competition shooting taught me to focus on either or both eyes.
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