On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Frank van Lindert wrote:
|I asked my ophthalmologist (who also is a friend - so no bills are
|resulting from this consultation) and he told me that over 900f all
|people have a so called 'leading' eye.
|
|It means that almost everyone uses one (dominant) eye mainly for
|vision, and the other eye only helps in seeing depth, etcetera. This
|is all done completely automatically - until the moment where you have
|to choose, i.e. in 'monocular' situations.
|
|As it happens the left eye is the dominant one just as often as the
|right eye, so there must be just as many left-eye shooters as
|right-eye shooters.
|Left handed people are a minority (at least in Europe and the US)
|which is being taken good care of by scissor designers, knife
|builders, etcetera, etcetera.
|It is very strange that camera designers take no account of the
|left-eye shooters - being 50 percent of all photographers in the
|world....
Yep! I'm a southpaw, ... er, southeyed shooter myself.
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