Green Eye?

[Indigo November]

So, this is really confusing me. When I look through the viewfinder with my right eye, white is white. When I look through with my left eye white has a greenish undertone. It is not this way when I am not looking through a viewfinder. Does this happen to anyone else?

[Indigo November]

Ha ha, guess I'm the only one, 25 views and no replies.........

[candleman]

i'm left eye dominant.. so i look like an idiot with my left eye crammed into the viewfinder.

with my left eye white is white.
with my right eye white has a very slight orange tinge to it..


so no,
you are not alone.

[Indigo November]

Thanks Candleman, I feel a little better. When you close your left eye do you see orangeish with you right? That what I found strange, white was white when I wasn't looking through the viewfinder.

[candleman]

yes, when i close my dominant eye the other one shows me everything a little orange..
but day to day life, and everything through the viewfinder is always white with my dominant eye

[LMAshton]

For me, it has nothing to do with the viewfinder. I always have a slight yellow tint in the right eye and a slight blue tint in the left. It's been like that for as long as I can remember.

[Aegea]

I've noticed a similar effect, but only when I have a head cold or I'm flying. I always assumed it had something to do with pressure on the optic nerves.

Edit: Well, dang. I just did a "controlled test" (squinted at a sheet of white paper with each eye closed in turn) and my left eye sees it a tad warmer than my right ... just never noticed it in everyday life before.

[junglebear]

That's weird, I never noticed that before but yes my right eye gives white an orange tint. I've always used the viewfinder with my dominant left-eye, never really thought about it before. I bet a lot of people have the same thing without realising.

[Vrinda]

Originally Posted by artofindigo

So, this is really confusing me. When I look through the viewfinder with my right eye, white is white. When I look through with my left eye white has a greenish undertone. It is not this way when I am not looking through a viewfinder. Does this happen to anyone else?

Hehe, wow! I've never noticed that before!
I'm sitting here in the living room squinting at a white tissue to test it, and my right eye seems warmer than my left. I'll try it with my camera viewfinder as soon as I'm within arm's reach of it.

[i speak in math]

I expect this has to do with keeping one eye open and exposed to ambient lighting longer than the other. When you are in a room with tungsten lighting, which is orange, your eyes adjust to it and make it appear white. You don't notice how orange it is because your cones or rods or something have adjusted to it.

When you keep one eye closed and only use the other, that open eye has adjusted to the light. When you open the other eye, which hasn't adjusted, everything appears orange-ish.

I suspect that if you reversed the experiment, and only shot with the left eye for a while, then switched to your right eye, the color cast will have been reversed to that eye.