Hands and eyes - which are you?

[Simpo Two]

Ignoring the one/both eyes variable for now, let's see if we can get some data on the handedness/eyedness thing...

The eye refers to which one you find most natural to put to the viewfinder.

[LongQ]

The vast majority of people, stumbling across your poll, would wonder what a 'viewfinder' is.

[Dogsey]

Right-handed and right-eyed, although I do use my left hand for a fair number of things and as started in the other thread I do have both eyes open some of the time when taking photos.

[twazzock]

Right eye to viewfinder, right hand to shutter. When shooting portrait I vary between shutter at top and shutter at bottom. I'm left handed for everything else.

[Hub]

The camera grip is on the right, so being left handed would be quite difficult!

[TheHeretic]

Right handed, left eyed.

[markmullen]

To find out which eye dominant you are hold a finger up at arms length with both eyes open and align it with a distant object. Keeping your finger still shut one eye, then reopen it and shut the other. You'll find with one eye open the alignment with the object will still be there, with the other eye it will appear to jump across. The eye which stays aligned is your dominant eye.

[YorkshirePudding]

Right handed but left eye dominant for me.

[2slo]

markmullen said:

To find out which eye dominant you are hold a finger up at arms length with both eyes open and align it with a distant object. Keeping your finger still shut one eye, then reopen it and shut the other. You'll find with one eye open the alignment with the object will still be there, with the other eye it will appear to jump across. The eye which stays aligned is your dominant eye.

I've seen someone get a surprise when they did that test.

[Simpo Two]

LongQ said:

The vast majority of people, stumbling across your poll, would wonder what a 'viewfinder' is.

Such people do not qualify for the test

markmullen said:

To find out which eye dominant you are hold a finger up at arms length with both eyes open and align it with a distant object. Keeping your finger still shut one eye, then reopen it and shut the other. You'll find with one eye open the alignment with the object will still be there, with the other eye it will appear to jump across. The eye which stays aligned is your dominant eye.

I've heard this, and also the 'floating sausage' test. However if I hold my finger up at a distant object, I see one distant object and two fingers... change to focus on finger and I get one finger and two distant objects... I just make it symmetrical...

[TheHeretic]

Simpo Two said:

I've heard this, and also the 'floating sausage' test. However if I hold my finger up at a distant object, I see one distant object and two fingers... change to focus on finger and I get one finger and two distant objects... I just make it symmetrical...

It works either way, I just tried it.

[K12beano]

2slo said:

markmullen said:

To find out which eye dominant you are hold a finger up at arms length with both eyes open and align it with a distant object. Keeping your finger still shut one eye, then reopen it and shut the other. You'll find with one eye open the alignment with the object will still be there, with the other eye it will appear to jump across. The eye which stays aligned is your dominant eye.

I've seen someone get a surprise when they did that test.

I think it depends which finger you hold up, and who else is in the room at the time........

[K12beano]

YorkshirePudding said:

Right handed but left eye dominant for me.

Good combination. Practical but artistic, obviously - relating to the left/right side of the brain respectively....


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/right-brain-v-lef...

[GetCarter]

K12beano said:

YorkshirePudding said:

Right handed but left eye dominant for me.

Good combination. Practical but artistic, obviously - relating to the left/right side of the brain respectively....


http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/right-brain-v-lef...

No matter how much I try, she's clockwise.

[TheHeretic]

GetCarter said:

No matter how much I try, she's clockwise.

Clockwise for me too.

[Simpo Two]

Clockwise at first then with some effort made her her a/c - you need to look away, imagine her going to other way then look back.

[GetCarter]

Nope. Not a chance in hell it's a/c

[K12beano]

Odd!

I can change perception at will!

Also good at sitting on fences....

[tim-b]

Simpo Two said:

Clockwise at first then with some effort made her her a/c - you need to look away, imagine her going to other way then look back.

Clockwise at first, but I can switch it anti-clockise too. I think switching is a skill I learnt from 3D CAD modelling, sometimes your brain gets confused viewing a wire-frame model (especially without a perspective view) and you need to force yourself to see it correctly.

[GetCarter]

I'm obviously as right brained as they come (No brainer)