Re: [Leica] One Eye

[J Vaughan <sthawk_ontheroad@yahoo.com>]

Jim-
The nearsighted/farsighted Eye thing runs in the family. 
 I don't wear glass 98% of the time they don't fit in my helmet and I
only need them when I'm shooting in real low light situations.
I shoot a pistol in a modified Weaver stance and sometimes I'm told it
looks as if my right ear is glued to my shoulder <LOL>
I have always used a motoer drive on my cameras untill I used a RF
camera so now I am looking at getting a rapidwinder so I don't put my
OTHER eye out.
 Maybe we should start a club. the company looks pretty good.
What kind of competition were you shooting in?
 I have been looking at >45s recently both fo carry and competion usr
but money is TIGHT and Legislation is tighter in New England (I am from
the wild West AZ,CO) But I am in Maine now where there are more
sensible laws than there are in Massachusettes..(ICK)

Jeremy

- --- John Black <jblack@ambio.net> wrote:
> Jeremy:
> 
> I was shocked to read that someone else saw the world as I do!  I am
> most
> surely right handed (writing, etc) but have always shot a shoulder
> weapon
> (rifle, shotgun) left handed and have a very obviously dominant left
> eye.  I
> had no obvious eye trauma in childhood nor any problem viewing
> stereoscopically (I don't think).  I shoot a pistol with my right
> hand but
> left eye!
> 
> I default to the left eye for photography but can, with conscious
> effort,
> use the right one.  I am moderately myopic (nearsighted) and use a -2
> diopter correction lens on my M cameras.  I also ride a bike (Harley)
> with
> no problem in the day but night riding is a real white knuckler
> becuase
> everything looks two dimensional (flat) and my depth perception goes
> to
> hell.  I presume that it is because my iris (aperture) is wide open
> that I
> cannot read the speedometer at night with my glasses on but can see
> it OK in
> daylight.  I have given up competitive shooting now because I can no
> longer
> see the rear and front sight as well as the target in focus at the
> same
> time.
> 
> I am trying to train myself to default to the right eye for
> rangefinder
> focusing because that eye has no astigmatism (the left does) but I
> still
> like to use the left eye for shoe mounted finder composition because
> it
> avoids nose grease on the camera viewfinder.
> 
> There was an interesting review on left handedness on the 5/16 online
> issue
> of the New York Times Health & Science section but they came to no
> new
> conclusions.
> 
> Glad to know that I'm not the only dexterous person with a sinister
> eye!
> 
> JB
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: J Vaughan <sthawk_ontheroad@yahoo.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 12:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] One Eye
> 
> 
> > I shoot Everything Left eyed... Cameras, Bows, Rifles... But I am
> > Absolutely right-handed.
> > I use my right eye mostly to read with.  After 30 years of
> > Opthamologists telling me I HAVE to use both eyes together. I met a
> DR
> > in Boston who said "you have Mono-Vision" And says that as we get
> older
> >  we become more (this is confusing to me because I am BOTH)
> > Nearsighted <?> anyway  the trend has been to correct only one eye
> so
> > the elderly have one far sighted eye (corrected) and a nearsighted
> > eye... (This may be backwards...)
> >
> > Photography has taught me how to IDENTIFY 3D. I don't see it the
> way
> > others do but I interpret what things are where, I don't walk into
> > objects and I do just fine on my Motorcycle. I think this is where
> the
> > photography has been a BIG help. I learned at an early age where
> > shadows fall. And to keep myself from walking into things I learned
> how
> > the objects look with different shadows.. I am really bad in flat
> > light.. I don't particularly like to ride the bike at night when I
> am
> > tired.
> > I played Baseball for ever... I could catch but couldn't hit the
> ball.
> > In college I discovered that my problem was that I would track the
> ball
> > to the plate with one eye and then as it got over the plate my
> other
> > eye would take over.. I started wearing a patch over one eye just
> to
> > play.
> >  but that was a hassle when I had to run....
> > So now I take photos, ride bikes and teach
> >  Have no worries Ted you are not alone. And it sounds like there
> are
> > several others who have similar eye problems.  Its pretty
> interesting.
> > I was told I had a rare problem surgeries didn't/couldn't fix it.
> yet
> > someone else here seems to have exactly the samething. I wonder if
> my
> > Dr. Lied to me...
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> > > Hi Jeremy,
> > >
> > > Obviously your career would have to be a photographer, hell I
> > > wouldn't
> > > want to be here all by myself. ;-)
> > >
> > > So which eye do you use ? Or can you use both of them equally as
> well
> > > looking through the M6 view finder?
> > >
> > > ted
> >
> >
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