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Jan 24, 2023 05:45:22   #
riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas
 
Festus wrote:
About 10% of the worlds population is left-handed. Not much of an incentive. Most left-handers have adapted to living in a high-handed world.


I am left-handed I never had a problem handling a Camera. I have become ambidextrous because I live in a backwards world.
Bruce.

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Jan 24, 2023 05:48:21   #
kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy
 
AndyT wrote:
An observation here, as I have no add-on handgrips on my cameras. Like many photographers out there, I am right-handed. So if we are able to spin dials, turn knobs and reset buttons easier with our right dominant hands, why is that hand tied up grabbing the grip? Wouldn't it make sense for manufacturers to offer an add-on hand grip that attaches to the left side of the camera instead? You can now hold the camera with your left hand instead, and make all
your adjustments with your dominant right hand.
An observation here, as I have no add-on handgrips... (show quote)


As long as you view with your right eye you need a right side grip. Otherwise you are covering the only eye you have left for seeing what is happening outside the viewfinder when the camera is held to your eye

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Jan 24, 2023 06:00:38   #
Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York
 
kymarto wrote:
As long as you view with your right eye you need a right side grip…..


This is not entirely correct. My mentor in high school suggested to have both eyes open an one at the viewfinder. He said, “that way you see twice as much.”

This may also be used when firing a gun. However, I have never sneezed with both eyes open. I wonder why?

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Jan 24, 2023 06:48:51   #
billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
 
AndyT wrote:
An observation here, as I have no add-on handgrips on my cameras. Like many photographers out there, I am right-handed. So if we are able to spin dials, turn knobs and reset buttons easier with our right dominant hands, why is that hand tied up grabbing the grip? Wouldn't it make sense for manufacturers to offer an add-on hand grip that attaches to the left side of the camera instead? You can now hold the camera with your left hand instead, and make all
your adjustments with your dominant right hand.
An observation here, as I have no add-on handgrips... (show quote)


Because most people are right handed.
Don't remember the company but their was a left handed camera made once, did not sell well at all, that ended the experiment.

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Jan 24, 2023 06:54:31   #
chrisg-optical Loc: New York, NY
 
I am right handed and use the right hand for the grip with the forefinger on the shutter button or the front dial and the thumb on the BB AF or rear dial. My left hand usually supports the lens unless it is a small wide angle prime or small zoom. If the grip was on the left that would royally mess up my system. For right-handers a right grip makes sense - and vice versa. They could make a left handed grip if the camera supports a bottom mounted grip, but the market would be small. I think it would be great to have an ambidextrous system even though I am right handed. Anyway market demand drives these kinds of developments. If the demand is not there it will be unlikely to see it realized.

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Jan 24, 2023 07:58:43   #
billt1970 Loc: Gambrills, Maryland
 
BebuLamar wrote:
I hold my camera with my left hand under the camera. When I adjust the shutter speed my right hand doesn't hold the camera. I use 2 fingers to turn the shutter speed dial. The left hand is for adjusting the aperture, the focus and zoom and cradle the camera too.
I don't want or need the right hand grip.


DITTOS here!

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Jan 24, 2023 08:09:50   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Scruples wrote:
This is not entirely correct. My mentor in high school suggested to have both eyes open an one at the viewfinder. He said, “that way you see twice as much.”

This may also be used when firing a gun. However, I have never sneezed with both eyes open. I wonder why?


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Jan 24, 2023 08:19:26   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Obviously, all the manufacturers made a mistake and left their machines running over a long weekend. They all have millions of right-handed grips. When all of them are sold, they will get back to making left-handed grips.

It's the same story with the makers of scissors.

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Jan 24, 2023 08:21:46   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
I know several left-handed people who play guitar right-handed.

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Jan 24, 2023 08:30:04   #
rustfarmer
 
Seems to me it would be easy enough to design grips that could be mounted either way. Fishing reels are usually made so the handle can be put on either side. Cameras are also made upside down as I have been saying for many years.

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Jan 24, 2023 08:35:29   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
rustfarmer wrote:
Seems to me it would be easy enough to design grips that could be mounted either way. Fishing reels are usually made so the handle can be put on either side. Cameras are also made upside down as I have been saying for many years.

Only if the grip doesn't have a pillar that goes into the battery compartment,
like mine does.

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Jan 24, 2023 08:43:33   #
mwsilvers Loc: Central New Jersey
 
rustfarmer wrote:
Seems to me it would be easy enough to design grips that could be mounted either way. Fishing reels are usually made so the handle can be put on either side. Cameras are also made upside down as I have been saying for many years.


Moving a grip to the left would require an entire redesign of the body. If not, you would need to use you left hand on the grip, your right hand to modify all the controls and the hand on your middle arm to support the camera and lens.

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Jan 24, 2023 08:47:05   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
mwsilvers wrote:
Moving a grip to the left would require an entire redesign of the body. If not, you would need to use you left hand on the grip, your right hand to modify all the controls and the hand on your middle arm to support the camera and lens.

Or move all the controls to the other side of the camera.
At least with many cameras the viewfinder is in the center (save a mm or three), not on the left.


Or, just like cars here, learn to drive from the left side...

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Jan 24, 2023 08:55:29   #
wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN
 
Current design has you holding with your dominant hand and the controls are designed to be controlled by the thumb and index finger of the dominant hand. If you changed it, you would be asking the left hand to do all the fine movements while the dominant right hand would not be using any fine finger control and just big grip control on the lens ring focusing.

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Jan 24, 2023 09:02:10   #
Bill 45
 
I am a left handed person. When I using one of my Nikon's cameras I have a bracket that hook on to the left side of the camera so that I can hold on to the camera. I have found that Nikon's cameras are not a friend to left handed people. If you are left handed don't buy a Nikon.

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