I do that lots of times with an Olympus XA. It works well, because it moves the controls that most require dexterity from the right side to my much more dexterous left hand.
It makes my contact sheets a bit confusing, but otherwise there is no real downside.
Come to think of it, it might work as well with my Retina IIIc.
What if the guns in the army are all right-handed?
How do you wind the film?
Reminds me that news photographers at crowded events use to take the prisms off their 35mm SLR cameras and hold them upside-down over their heads and the heads of the crowd in front of them to shoot the main subject in front. They would just look at the ground glass.
Not generally a problem with rifles, because the sights are essentially telescopes, and you can use either eye or cram your left eye into place. I did have a problem with the automatic bolt/carriage on a (British army) SLR, though: took some chips out of my face.
The sights are aligned with the barrel, so if your eye is lined up with the sights, the bullet will be on target (laterally). From my decades-past experience, the weapons we used were bilaterally symmetrical, so it wouldn't matter if you were left-handed, although I no-one was allowed to carry the thing left-handed 'cos that would look bad! I don't think there is any connection with photographic composition. Shotguns and archery, possibly; rifles, no.Do the cartridge shells discharge on the right or left or is that adjustable? What about replacing the cartridge holder and placement of safety buttons?
What if the guns in the army are all right-handed?
How do you wind the film?
At least they issue right and left boots these days...They are for standardization and have been for many decades.
I guess if you have two left feet, you're exempt if the Draft ever comes back.At least they issue right and left boots these days...
....Between that and having the eye-sight of a blind eagle, I still worried about the Draft.
I'm left eye dominant and modify my small cameras with big rubber eye cups to keep light from streaming into the viewfinder from the left edge. Tried using my right eye, but it just didn't click.
Write and play baseball right handed, but play lacrosse and hockey left handed.
Left and right boots were introduced about the same time as photography (give or take a few decades). Both were rather new in America at the time of the American Civil War.
But judging by my prowness on the basketball court as a high school freshman in 1968, I had two left feet and kept tripping over the thickly painted lines on the court. Between that and having the eye-sight of a blind eagle, I still worried about the Draft.
I really worried about the draft since I had no physical or mental issues that would exclude me AND I had a low lottery number. Sure enough, they drafted me.
My lottery number was 242, give or take a few -- and they stopped drafting 19 yr olds the year I turned 19.I really worried about the draft since I had no physical or mental issues that would exclude me AND I had a low lottery number. Sure enough, they drafted me.
So you mean if you're left-eye dominant, you shoot lefty? If you're right-eye dominant you shoot righty? But what if a person is left-eyed and right-hand dominant or vice versa? Could you use this issue to avoid getting drafted? (seriously)
I’m not sure why you are right-handed, but the right side of the brain is associated with spatial abilities, imagination and visual awareness.
I joined the Air Force, but that was in 1963 a year before VietNam got really hot. No one even heard of the place then. Where did you serve?
I don't think that has any scientific validity but it used to be a popular idea on Readers Digest.
You may be referring to the popular belief that the right hemisphere is associated with creativity. What I am referring is spatial relationships and how that might be connected to artistic composition.
From a paper on the Dana Foundation website, published in 2019:
"...for about 30 percent of lefties, the right hemisphere rules in these regards. The same is true for about 3 percent of right-handers. In another substantial minority, control of language seems more evenly distributed between the hemispheres. Functions in which the right hemisphere commonly predominates have taken longer to pin down, and are less marked than language dominance.
This side seems particularly important in spatial orientation—people with right brain injuries are prone to getting lost even in familiar surroundings, and may become unable to draw. ..."
From the NIH (2010):
"...The right hemisphere sees the whole, before whatever it is gets broken up into parts in our attempt to know it, and its holistic processing is not based on summation of parts. The right hemisphere, with its greater integrative power, is constantly searching for patterns in things, and its understanding is based on complex pattern recognition. On the other hand, the left hemisphere sees part-objects..."
"...For the same reason that the right hemisphere sees things as a whole, it also sees each thing in its context, as standing in a qualifying relationship with all that surrounds it..."
From what I’ve read, these ideas about functional asymmetry in the brain are not undisputed. Even if they are right, we still have to explain how eye-dominance and handedness are hooked up to the two hemispheres, and whether those connections differ in ‘cross-dominant’ people.
It’s fascinating to speculate on a mechanism, but I notice that while others on this thread find left-eye-dominance inconvenient, no-one else seems to have linked composition to whether they use their dominant eye or not. So maybe I’m wrong in suspecting a connection. All I really know is that composing is faster and more successful with my left eye, even though it’s awkward with a right-handed camera. But my right eye also has a bit more astigmatism, so the cause could be at the sensor level, rather than connections within the brain.
Fascinating discussion, though, glad I started this thread.
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