Are all cameras Right Handed ?

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O.k a bit tongue in cheek ! I recently had a minor accident ripping my collar bone away from my shoulder, this means I'm stuck to local wanderings and cannot do many of the things I enjoy. One thing I have been trying to do is a bit of photography with a point and shoot for two reasons risk of dropping the camera ( my point and shoots cost next to nothing) and two the small size of the camera helps with it's use( one/left handed). The main difficultly is every camera I have ( and have ever seen) has the shutter button on the right ( effectively right handing the camera) and I only have my left hand ( try it !) My latest method is to use the camera upside down putting the button on the left and making it some what easier to hold and shoot.
 
I'm sure that back in the days of yore there was a 35mm camera with the shutter button on the left, but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Obviously the camera on a mobile phone can easily be operated "upside down".
 
Remote release taped to camera? Cable release if you have a threaded shutter button (eg Fujis)?
 
I shoot left handed and find a right handed camera easy enough to use :)
 
Stephen L said:
I'm sure that back in the days of yore there was a 35mm camera with the shutter button on the left,
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There were some. The most widely used were the Exakta cameras, originally produced by Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden and the first widely used 35mm SLRs. An Exakta was featured in the film "Rear Window".
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
There were some. The most widely used were the Exakta cameras, originally produced by Ihagee Kamerawerk in Dresden and the first widely used 35mm SLRs. An Exakta was featured in the film "Rear Window".
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That’s it. I did own an Exacta once. An under-rated camera.
 
The actual problem is that cameras are Two handed. Left handers cope very well. Single handers have all sorts of problems.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
The actual problem is that cameras are Two handed. Left handers cope very well. Single handers have all sorts of problems.
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I know what you mean but a lot light weight cameras can be operated single (right) handed easily either on automatic or with various parameters preset.
 
BADGER.BRAD said:
O.k a bit tongue in cheek ! I recently had a minor accident ripping my collar bone away from my shoulder, this means I'm stuck to local wanderings and cannot do many of the things I enjoy. One thing I have been trying to do is a bit of photography with a point and shoot for two reasons risk of dropping the camera ( my point and shoots cost next to nothing) and two the small size of the camera helps with it's use( one/left handed). The main difficultly is every camera I have ( and have ever seen) has the shutter button on the right ( effectively right handing the camera) and I only have my left hand ( try it !) My latest method is to use the camera upside down putting the button on the left and making it some what easier to hold and shoot.
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If you can still move your fingers on your right hand then a remote works. I often use a Bluetooth remote with the phone camera when one can’t physically get both hands on the phone — of course you can use volume buttons etc but this (for me) invariably moves the camera.
 
Luckily ( or hopefully)for me it a temporary thing, but something I had never noticed or even thought about. Another way I've attempted to use the camera was with a delayed shutter giving me 10 seconds to frame the image. I broke my top of the range ( in 1995) Nokia in the crash so have had a Thick end of the spectrum second hand Smart Phone with the camera being for want of a better description rubbish. Other wise it would have been a good solution.
 
There are several folding 120 camera's with the shutter button on the left, my 1933 Zeiss Ikon nectar 515/2 6x9cm is one of them.
 
I suffer with age related tremor with intent. This means the harder I try, the worse the shake..
I have found that if I press the shutter with the fingers of two hands I do not shake as I release.
I have devised an unusual over hand hold that allows me to do this.

This selfie in the bathroom mirror, shows that it woks at even slow shutter speeds.
note I keep both eyes open.

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No, they're not all 'right handed', this Pentina 35mm SLR from the early 1960s has both the shutter release button and film winding lever on the left hand side and has been in the family since new - although non of us are left handed.

I wouldn't suggest that you rush out to buy one though, as this is one of the few that actually still works and I believe they're a nightmare to repair too.

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After seeing the specialist yesterday I find that after the operation I will be severely restricted to one hand for quite a length of time making it even more difficult than now. Not great news ! but it does look like the pint and shoot may get a hammering.
 
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There is a universal folding L grip designed for left handed operation that was made by LPL that also holds a cable release & external flash if you wanted to use one and It screws into the tripod bush of your camera. Probably no longer made but if you type LPL Grip into Google it does come up with quite a few that are available from various places.
 
At the bottom of THIS page, you can see him using a left handed Nikon... ;)
 
There are also a couple of bits of reasonable advice but there's so much crap around the gems that it's not a site I'd recommend to anyone looking for advice.
 
Yeshiva made a left handed version of the Samurai half frame camera. Now quite rare and expensive. On the "F" range of 35mm SLR cameras Konica offered a screw in shutter button that went on the left.
The classic Hasselblad 500 cameras are meant to be cupped in the left hand and fired with left pointer finger. As most controls are on the lens and that should be used right handed I'm not sure that counts.
 
I think Sigma missed a trick with their little FP camera. It surely would have been easy enough to make a left handed grip and shutter button for it. It might even be possible to DIY it? Perhaps not with one hand though!
 
Nod said:
There are also a couple of bits of reasonable advice but there's so much crap around the gems that it's not a site I'd recommend to anyone looking for advice.
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and why do I think all his images are over saturated ???
 
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