Re: [photo-3d] Re: closing your eyes (was stats)

["Allan Griffin" <agriffin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mike for your words of caution.  Following reading this post, I took
out a couple of my cameras to see just what I really did when framing a
picture, checking focus etc..as against what I 'thought' I did!

I find that, when using my RBT, I mostly look through BOTH viewfinders.
However, when squinting at a built in meter reading, I am certain to close
one eye (always the same one!).  When using cameras with a single
viewfinder, I close one eye most of the time.  I have survived to a ripe ol'
age without any detectable disadvantage to the vision in my viewfinder eye.
It is quite interesting, Mike, to hear that you favour NOT closing the other
eye.  I just wonder what is the habit experienced by most others on this
List.  Further, I am becoming more unconvinced about the "dominant eye"
theory.  On the other hand, Linda Nygren points out that she believes that
she has a VERY dominant eye - an opinion which I respect fully.

Allan Griffin

Subject: [photo-3d] Re: closing your eyes (was stats)

> In Digest 283 Allan Griffin writes, in part:
>
> <<  I believe that the dominant eye is the one which is easiest
>  to close and keep closed comfortably while peering through viewfinders
with
>  the other.  >>

Mike Carter wrote:
> I assure you that closing your "idle" eye is a bad and potentially
dangerous
> habit.  It
> is well known that closing one eye strains the working eye.
>
> In addition, closing an eye diminishes a considerable amount of your
> peripheral vision,
> making you less aware of your surroundings and that much more likely to be
> injured by
> them.  Ever seen a photographer get squished on the sidelines?  Not a
pretty
> sight...don't
> let it happen to you.
>
>
> Mike Canter
>
>
>