Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video wrote: > > At 03:19 PM 07/19/2001, you wrote: > >I'm not a grip kind of person. I find them very unwieldily and awkward, > >especially when holding the camera vertically (portrait orientation.) > > > >My wrist doesn't bend that way. > > My experience is that most people who feel this way are rotating the camera > so the shutter release is at the bottom when in vertical orientation. I > hold the camera in my left hand, palm up so the left thumb is pointing > left, and when I go to vertical rotate counter-clockwise so the right hand > is at the top. > > Your mileage may vary. > -- > regards, > Henry Posner I am in this category and i believe I'm in a 30 percent minority. To me there is nothing obvious about standing there with my camera dangling from underneath my right hand. My hand is underneath it. My camera rests IN my right hand. My left hand comes up and grabs the lens and focuses it. I drop my left hand and the camera itself is still being cradled in my right hand. I shoot 10 rolls of 36 exposure film in my "studio" this way in 2,3 or 4 hours. How I'd do that with the camera dangling I'll never know. Why cameras are being designed the other way or why the majority seems to go for it I'll never Know. No problem with my grip by the way. Not much help for a smaller lens but for a 24 or 90 i feel it really keeps the camera in my hand and does not get in my way. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/