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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: glasses and eyes
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 18:38:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, EL406045@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Tony Harminc) says:
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- >
- >The world seems to have recognized that left handed people exist and have
- >uh, rights, but the same is not true for the left eyed. I am right handed
- >but left eyed, and it's a problem. Using an ordinary 35mm SLR camera
- >is a pain, particularly as I am blessed with a good sized nose which
- >gets in the way if I try to apply my left eye to the viewfinder. Using
- >a camcorder is in some cases quite impossible. Others allow the
- >viewfinder to tilt up, but then the angle leads to disorientation as
- >I try to pan. No one seems to treat this seriously :-(
- >
- You have my sympathies. I've never bothered to try using a camcorder, but
- manage an SLR just fine. The first camera I learned to use is a twin lens
- reflex, with the viewfinder on top, so it wasn't a problem then.
-
- One thing I have noticed, is that I seem to be able to switch dominant
- eyes with some effort. If I'm looking at something in the distance, I
- can sometimes manage to switch eyes without closing one. That may be tied
- into something I ran into in in elementary school. They always gave us
- these eye exam things every year, and had this test where they would show
- a picture of a small red apple on a black background to one eye, and a
- green table to the other. We were supposed to tell the nurse/whoever whether
- the apple was on the table or on the ground. I could never get the dumb
- thing to sit still long enough to tell, so I'd always guess.
-
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