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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JimL" data-source="post: 846191" data-attributes="member: 69920">Strange that I have only just starting thinking about which eye to use on camera viewfinder.I have just got a new (to me) 500 pf lens and d500 body. I am mainly interested in birds, often in flight. Many thanks for the advice on here to get to this point. Previously I was using 200-500 and d780. Well the new set is great - the speed of focus and extra reach is really a big improvement. But it gives me a new issue - finding the bird through the viewfinder! So I read about this and starting thinking about which eye I use. I found that I am right eye dominant (by triangle test) (and right handed) and yet my preference is to use my left eye on the viewfinder. I don’t understand why I have this preference - I realised this was the case for telescopes also. I read about keeping both eyes open - this only works if right eye is on view finder as the viewfinder is off centre to the left. I tried it and it felt weird, but good see maybe with practice I could get the hand of it.So any tips for finding distant birds with telephoto? Any idea why I use the ‘wrong’ eye - and is it worth preserving to switch eyes and keep both eyes open?By the way I wear varifocal glasses and keep them on - both eyes have similar corrections.Thanks in advance …</blockquote>