P3D Re: Stereo viewfinder for a stereo camera

[Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:09 PM -0700 6/10/98, Greg Wageman wrote:
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>I don't feel that  being able to use both eyes helps in composition to
>any great extent.  However, what it DOES do is eliminate that annoying
>"squint" that I have to do with a one-eyed viewfinder.  I've been told
>that I should learn to use a monocular viewfinder with both eyes open.
>However, I've found that my brain tends to prefer the brighter image,
>which is NOT the one in the viewfinder, so much so that the image in the
>viewfinder would gradually become all but invisible, so for me it was
>squint or nothing (short of an eye patch, if one doesn't mind looking
>like "Blackbeard the Photographer").  After a whole day of squinting,
>the facial muscles become quite tired.  This is not an issue with the
>binocular viewfinder.

Greg,

You could try an eye-patch; many large pharmacies carry them.  :-)

-Jim C.

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