Which eye do you use in the viewfinder? And what hand are you?

[Asylum Steve]

...kaleidoscopes, I'm LEFT EYE all the way. ;)

I don't quite know what that means, left-brain right-brain wise, as I write with my left hand, throw with my right, eat with my left, but brush my teeth with my right. I've never had a professional evaluation, but my guess is the two halves of my brain kind of fight it out, much like the Hatfields and the McCoys...

BTW, I usually use both eyes for binocs, viewmasters, periscopes, and peep shows. And for what it's worth, I can drink, punch, kick, snap fingers, shoot marbles, pick apples, plug dykes, poke eyes, point at things, flip birds, and pick my, eh, you know...equally well with either side...

I too hold my camera and shoot like Sean. I suppose early on I may have noticed how "professionals" did it and perhaps copied them to some degree, but mostly this way has always felt the most natural.

Interesting topic. I think it would feel extremely weird using my right eye to look through the viewfinder. Don't they say you should try things like that from time to time to "shake up" your brain? In my case, that might be dangerous!

[another view]

Right handed, left eyed - so was Galen Rowell . Never thought about it until a couple of years ago when I shot (as in with a gun) sporting clays. I have to shoot lefty, or actually it doesn't make much difference in my case. Let's just say that clay targets aren't an endangered species around here...

I also flip the camera CCW, for some reason I get a little bit sharper results when I have to use a slow shutter speed (as in 1/30, etc). Hey Steve, if you're up for the Chicago gathering again I'll have to check out how you do it. I must be missing something because rotating the camera CW makes more sense for slower shutter speeds - I would think you could brace the camera better.

[Asylum Steve]

I also flip the camera CCW, for some reason I get a little bit sharper results when I have to use a slow shutter speed (as in 1/30, etc). Hey Steve, if you're up for the Chicago gathering again I'll have to check out how you do it

Opps, big mistake here. I didn't read Sean's post closely enough...

For verts, I too rotate the camera CCW, cradling the camera with my left hand at the bottom, and my right hand on the shutter.

Seems to me we had this discussion not too long ago (at least with Sean), as CCW is pretty conventional for pro shooters with SLRs.

Man, now my brain is ALL mixed up...

BTW, I also throw a spear with my right arm...

[Sean Dempsey]

I forgot to mention, I also don't have stereoscopic vision, and I have glasses... haha. No stereo vision means I can't use biniculars well, can't see the Magic Eye book things, can't do alot. My depth perception leaves much to be desired.