Eyes wide open

[Paul Verrips]

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Since september 2010 i started with Leica (m9) an since a few months i experience that focusing whith both eyes wide open, i can focus faster than 1 open and 1 closed.

 

What are your experiences?

[andybarton]

I'm a left eye user, so opening both eyes is pointless for me.

 

When I've tried using my right eye, I can't use both eyes open.

[azzo]

Since september 2010 i started with Leica (m9) an since a few months i experience that focusing whith both eyes wide open, i can focus faster than 1 open and 1 closed.

 

What are your experiences?

 

I think, you're actually focussing with one eye. The one peeking through the viewfinder.

[lct]

Works fine with 1:1 VFs, less so with 0.91x, even less so with 0.85x and 072x, but 0.68x is definitely too wide for me.

[andybarton]

I've never used a Bessa or an M3, but I find it easier, although unsatisfactory, on the 0.58 than on a 0.72

 

Different strokes, and all that

[250swb]

Focus using all your senses Grasshopper

 

Zentraveler on the Zen Grasshopper! | zentraveler

 

 

Steve

[luigi bertolotti]

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I'm a left eye user, so opening both eyes is pointless for me.

 

When I've tried using my right eye, I can't use both eyes open.

 

Same for me - so accustomed to that using right eye and closing the other brings always to not horizontal positioning - back of my cameras is "nose-worn" - doesn't matter...

[philipus]

On the M3 I could have both open while focusing. On my M6 0,72x and my II I can't.

 

Different strokes, and all that

 

That last bit Andy, were it generally accepted by every member of this forum, would prevent lots of unnecessary argument

[lct]

Mods are always right anyway.

[Paul Verrips]

When i focus with one eye, it's the left one. But that makes the screen very greasy. hen focusing with the right eye and the left eye open, i'm just quicker in seeing if it's in focus or not.

[lars_bergquist]

About the only type of camera I focused with just one eye open was the Rolleiflex TLR. Here, the left eye would only have seen my left shoe. Oh yes, and folding roll film cameras with brilliant finders – anyone ever used them?

 

The old man from the Paleophotographic Age

[Messsucherkamera]

I focus with my right eye. In thinking about this, focusing a rangefinder with both eyes open vs. one eye open should not matter; a rangefinder camera's viewfinder angle of view stays the same when you switch lenses from short to longer or vice-versa. This is not the case when switching lenses (or zooming a zoom lens) on an SLR.

 

I 'm going to try two eye focusing to see how it feels and works. In theory it should make no difference (but I have to admit it seems a bit weird already).