I've actually found this qite interesting how this can vary. Which eye do you shoot with? I tend to shoot with my left eye, so my right eye is staring into the back of the camera. I know it would be better if I could shoot with my right, because then I could open my eye and see whats goin on, but it just feels so unnatural. Anyone else?

I've actually found this qite interesting how this can vary. Which eye do you shoot with? I tend to shoot with my left eye, so my right eye is staring into the back of the camera. I know it would be better if I could shoot with my right, because then I could open my eye and see whats goin on, but it just feels so unnatural. Anyone else?

I shoot looking through the viewfinder with my right eye and have my left eye on the action and that saved my rear once.

JS

yeah, a lot of the time I watch the action through the viewfinder, and when I see the ball coming at me, drop the camera.

Amen to that! Especially shooting baseball. Knowing something about the sport you're shooting really makes a difference. Rh batters tend to foul off pitches to the 1b side, lh batters to the 3rd base side, etc. Still makes for some excitement though if you aren't paying strict attention. ;)

Amen to that! Especially shooting baseball. Knowing something about the sport you're shooting really makes a difference. Rh batters tend to foul off pitches to the 1b side, lh batters to the 3rd base side, etc. Still makes for some excitement though if you aren't paying strict attention. ;)

LOL, yup, I had a foul wiz by last season that I could feel and hear as it went past. The pitching coach walks past me later with a ball and puts it up near the lens and say "yup, would have fit perfectly".....I replied "OK, tell your son to chill, I won't submit any more photos of him striking out :p :D He laughed and said he forgot about that, but was certain his son hadn't!

JS

JS, I had a game last year where I was sitting in the first base field boxes in blinding sun and couldn't see a foul ball hit off the bat. Nearly got skulled, and decided right there never to sit in that area with that kind of light. Also had an experience a couple of years ago where a bat went flying into the stands in the exact spot I had just been shooting. You need about 10 sets of eyes at a ballpark.

Right-handed and right-eyed. I actually can't see very well through the viewfinder with my left eye. I wear glasses and one eye has astigmatism and that might have something to do with it. I think my right eye is the poorer one, though. In any case, only the right one will work for me.

Right eye for me too. Guess it's just personal preference.

Jared

Usually, its my right eye, but it depends on what I'm doing. I've been known to use my left eye sometimes or shoot without looking through the viewfinder.

Always the right eye for me. Would love to learn to keep the left open, but it seem so unnatural to me. I've tried it several times and I just can't seem to get the hang of it.

How about ambi-ocular ?

that would certainly be interesting. too bad i cant edit the poll though....