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A friend of mine suffered a stroke and now finds it difficult to fire the shutter with her right hand. She asked if there is a camera with a left handed release. To complicate things she is left handed anyhow.
I am not aware of any camera either for or with a left handed release, perhaps you could help.
Many thanks.
Ken
I'm not being funny here, and I have no idea if this is practical, but could she hold the camera upside down ?
Never tried it myself, so don't laugh at me (although I was shooting with my 5D upside down dangling from my tripod to get close to the floor at the weekend).
I remember a Konica camera from the early 1980s, which was one of the first 35 mm SLRs to feature a built in winder, to have a left handed release in addition to the standard release.
It never caught on (the camera) but not becauswe of the left handed operation
I know this doesn't answer your question, but illustrates that left handed releases have been done in the past.
As it is a comapct it should be easier to hold upside down (rather easier than a 5D lol).
The difficulty can be practised but anyone with full use of both hands and right handed can get round problems easier.
Some good tips, more the one about firing the camera upside down, sounds funny but a practical way out. Will pass it on although she might have already tried that.
The old film cameras were so much eaier with cable release being a norm fitting along with a pistol grip. A pistol grip may be of benefit that I am sure she hasn`t tried
Two cameras mentioned but they are film and they don`t seem that long ago.
The Exacta was indeed left hand Ceri, I remember it now.The Yashica Samurai made in two versions sounds rather an odd thing to do while they must have had left handed users in mind. I am sure it can be done with modern compacts but not economic when you see dozens of models being introduced almost daily.
Noted the tips and will pass them on.
Ken
If she doesn't mind using a manual focus SLR she could consider a (second-hand) Ricoh XR-X.
This has a button on the left which activates the self-timer. Instead of the 2 or 10 second delay that most cameras offer, the XR-X allows you to set the delay to almost any interval you want - including zero seconds. Configured like this it effectively becomes a shutter release button. The downside is that you don't get the "half-press to activate the metering" option that a convetional shutter release offers.
Alternatively how about a camera with an electrical cable release (plug it in and tape the release button on the left hand side of the camera) ?
I seem to recall that some Canon cameras used to come with a separate remote control - perhaps that could be a practical option ?
John
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