Are you a "leftie" (not politically)
Jan 2, 2021 17:37:22 #
JeffL wrote:
Another lefty here. I shoot rifles right-handed. When I was in the service, firing an M1 carbine with the shells going down the back of my neck caused me to shoot right-handed. Being right eye dominant is a problem when trying to shoot billiards left-handed, but no problem bowling. Flying: control yoke in left hand, right hand for throttle, mixture, radios, GPS, etc.
When I was in the Army, the M16 had a similar problem, but they had developed a guard for left-handed shooters that prevented the hot shells going down their necks.
Jan 2, 2021 17:45:58 #
tennis2618 wrote:
As the retired President of the Skil Power Tool Co... (show quote)
Well, then you should know that your word drive saw, other companies as well are terrible to use left handed. You have to lean to the left over the saw to see what you are cutting.
And, I have never seen a carpenter where safety goggles using a saw. Like most power tools Skill products are built solely for right handers. Hand held circular saws are terrible for left handers to use. Can't believe that a president of the company wouldn't make their product better for left handers when they are left handed themselves.
You are right about adapting to a right handed world though. Many power tools force you to use them right handed. Chain saws are especially bad left handed, but I don't use one of them nearly as much so didn't mention them in the first post.
Jan 2, 2021 17:56:20 #
I am a lefty and have had some sort of camera since I was in grade school. I never thought much about them being set up for right handed people. I also collect antique cameras. I believe the Exacta VX series film cameras had the shutter button and film advance on the left. That is the only one I have ever seen.
Jan 2, 2021 18:39:55 #
Jan 2, 2021 19:12:31 #
Oh yeah I'm left handed all the time. I just taught myself to shoot with my left eye as my right does not work as good as it use to. Caught this Ring Bill Gull with my new Canon 6r. It's tracking and eye detection on moving subjects is a real game changer.
Jan 2, 2021 19:21:05 #
John Hicks
Loc: Sible Hedinham North Essex England
I am left handed never had a problem using my cameras, use hand tools either left or righthanded, kicked a football with my right foot, batted playing cricket right handed and bowled left handed, played golf right handed
Jan 2, 2021 19:25:09 #
drrobins
Loc: San Francisco East Bay (Walnut Creek)
OnDSnap wrote:
No & easily. Personally I never heard of a le... (show quote)
Almost all right-handers are right eye dominant. Also, the majority of left-handers are right eye dominant.
So, true that hand dominance has little to do with eye dominance. (I’m a pediatric ophthalmologist.)
Jan 2, 2021 19:28:56 #
I am left handed and the only problem I ever had was with sissors (and spelling).. well, the rocket launcher was a problem, but I only had to fire it twice. GBG
Jan 2, 2021 19:34:15 #
j4door wrote:
There are 32 million left handed people in the United States. Do you lefties find that using right handed and right eyed cameras ackward? How have you coped? Has anyone ever manufactured a left-handed camera?
I'm not left-handed, but AM left-EYED. Makes it just about impossible to use BBF. Have absolutely no idea how I managed to use my left eye for photography. Must have started about the time I got my Brownie when I was about 10. No way can I re-train myself to use my right eye to look through the view-finder.
Jan 2, 2021 19:52:30 #
j4door wrote:
There are 32 million left handed people in the United States. Do you lefties find that using right handed and right eyed cameras ackward? How have you coped? Has anyone ever manufactured a left-handed camera?
I am a RH guy with dry macula degen in fight eye and wet md in left eye. Because of this limitation, I am forced to use my left eye for shooting. I have adapted and am not bothered by this requirement.
Jan 2, 2021 20:20:04 #
david vt wrote:
... lest my nose move the focus point on my D7200!
Misread your comment as "let my nose move the focus point on my D7200!" I was quite impressed for a moment.
Jan 2, 2021 22:52:15 #
Irish2019
Loc: Butte, MT
All the way lefty except fly casting a torn rotar cuff taught me to use the dumb hand. No problems with the camera controls except for remembering the turns in the heat of the moment
Jan 3, 2021 07:40:15 #
Schoee
Loc: Europe
Not sure if it is natural or due to a right handed world but my experience is that many left handed people are much more ambidextrous than right handlers. There are some who are extremely left handed but most seem to naturally do some things left and some right handed and for new skills it can be learnt either way.
Jan 3, 2021 08:05:32 #
there is some kinda connection between being left-handed and becoming an engineer. When I wasabout 10 a fortune teller at Atlantic city told me I was going to be an engineer, sumpin I did not know at the time, I asked him "?" and he connected left-handed ness..
Jan 3, 2021 08:48:02 #
I am a total lefty, everything I do - hand, leg eye.
No problem with the camera. Groing up in Cuba ( and not having much of anything) I even played baseball with a glove for right handes and was very good with it.
Here is a bit of fact: EVERYONE IS BORN RIGHT HANDED, JUST A FEW OF US OVERCOME THAT PROBLEM.
No problem with the camera. Groing up in Cuba ( and not having much of anything) I even played baseball with a glove for right handes and was very good with it.
Here is a bit of fact: EVERYONE IS BORN RIGHT HANDED, JUST A FEW OF US OVERCOME THAT PROBLEM.
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