Cande wrote: >For several years, I've always wondered as to why camera manu- >facturere make bodies that are most suited for right-handed >persons and not for the left. Agreed, there are (significantly) >more right-handed than left-handed people. >Let me make this claim first: The reason why I said "right-handed" >is more of convinence since camera bodies have the shutter-release >on the right. On the contrary, if the shutter release was on the >left, I would have said "left-handed". Please don't start a thread >on this, but what I'm hoping to debate on is why the shutter release >(and other buttons) is not on the left side of the body. >I'm told that some camera manufacturers do make camera bodies >suited for left-handed people, but the common camera bodies >(at least the Nikons) are designed for right-handed persons. >My apologies for this non-Nikon-specific question, buy lets try >and keep the debate to Nikon bodies ! If this issue has been >discussed earlier, please let me know, and I'll go and dig the >digest archives. I look forward to your thoughts. Thanks. >Cande Ananth >ps: Yes, I'm left handed ! Cande, A simplistic answer/suggestion, and possibly one requiring more manual desterity than you possess, is: Try turning the camera upside down and operating it with yout left thumb. I used to do that when I needded a couple more inches of height to shoot over the heads of a crowd of people. Maybe it can't be done with today's gazillion-button 'automatic' (if they were truly automatic they wouldn't need so damned many controls) cameras. Just a thought. Best regards, Stew -- Photo Web pages: http://www.inficad.com/~gstewart UNIX: It's not just 'User-Unfriendly', it's 'Proactively User-Hostile'! Nothing generates so much silence as confronting a person with an undeniable truth which is contrary to that person's beliefs. Manual cameras, Luna-Pro's and stick shifts.
