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Subject: [OM] Re: Switching eyes...
From: "Joel Wilcox" <jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:35:08 -0600
On 3/28/06, Michael Collins <l43g20th@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been right-handed and right-eyed all my life, as far as a camera is
> concerned, but all of a sudden need to become right-handed/left-eyed. I
> developed PVD (posterior vitreous detachment) in my right eye yesterday, so
> its vision is rather clouded at the moment and may well stay that way.
> Fortunately no signs (yet) of retinal detachment. Perils of being older and
> myopic, it seems.
>
> I picked up the OM-1 this morning and started the mental adjustment to using
> the other eye. I didn't really notice any problems, other than that it feels
> odd. With the viewfinder offset a bit to the left, all the right eye really
> sees is the camera body and my right hand holding the camera, so the haze
> and floaters don't distract much. But I wondered if anyone else has been
> through this, and found any difficulty adapting?
>
> Michael

Good luck, Michael.  I had a brief period switching to the left eye
when discovered I could focus my slow lenses better that way.  Then I
discovered the correction diopters and switched back.  It can be done!

Joel W.
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