Comments on: Supporting the camera: holding with your hands http://vesnakozelj.com/photography/fundamentals/supporting-the-camera-holding-with-your-hands Photography Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:38:44 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ignat "Dyor" Solovey http://vesnakozelj.com/photography/fundamentals/supporting-the-camera-holding-with-your-hands/comment-page-1#comment-4600 Ignat "Dyor" Solovey Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:32:28 +0000 http://vesnakozelj.com/?p=40#comment-4600 Seems that you either haven't nothing in common with photojournalism and technical survey imaging, or don't give a damn that your readers might ever mess in these specialties. There is a rule there - "shoot or fail". Posture recommendation for vertical composition seems nonsense at least to me and my fellow photographers, who are mostly journalists and portrait/wedding shooters. First of all, if you are right-handed, it is natural to hold the camera with button pointing up and left (of course, if it is not KIEV-6C, some EXAs or unique Ken Rockwell's left-handed Nikon F100). Moreover, the construction of [official, we aren't talking about Chinese third-party grips with three shutter buttons and alarm clock] vertical grips, either modular or built-in, on ALL cameras with such functionality I've ever seen, proposes holding it with right hand. Not to mention, that camera hyroscopes (rotation sensors) provide "heads up, legs down" image only if camera is being held in "prohibited" way. And finally: when you have sufficient exposure parameters and shoot overhead, especially on live view-enabled camera, it is almost impossible to hold camera in the way other than "one hand, no lens support". These rules are good if you have plenty of time, strong left hand, lightweight camera and steady scene to capture... and if you are n00b. But when it comes to real world, even parties - these rules are rules to break. Seems that you either haven’t nothing in common with photojournalism and technical survey imaging, or don’t give a damn that your readers might ever mess in these specialties. There is a rule there – “shoot or fail”.
Posture recommendation for vertical composition seems nonsense at least to me and my fellow photographers, who are mostly journalists and portrait/wedding shooters.
First of all, if you are right-handed, it is natural to hold the camera with button pointing up and left (of course, if it is not KIEV-6C, some EXAs or unique Ken Rockwell’s left-handed Nikon F100). Moreover, the construction of [official, we aren't talking about Chinese third-party grips with three shutter buttons and alarm clock] vertical grips, either modular or built-in, on ALL cameras with such functionality I’ve ever seen, proposes holding it with right hand. Not to mention, that camera hyroscopes (rotation sensors) provide “heads up, legs down” image only if camera is being held in “prohibited” way.
And finally: when you have sufficient exposure parameters and shoot overhead, especially on live view-enabled camera, it is almost impossible to hold camera in the way other than “one hand, no lens support”.

These rules are good if you have plenty of time, strong left hand, lightweight camera and steady scene to capture… and if you are n00b. But when it comes to real world, even parties – these rules are rules to break.

]]> By: Eddie http://vesnakozelj.com/photography/fundamentals/supporting-the-camera-holding-with-your-hands/comment-page-1#comment-29 Eddie Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:47:59 +0000 http://vesnakozelj.com/?p=40#comment-29 Hey! great article, thank you! I posted it as an example here http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=30178738 hope you don't mind Hey! great article, thank you!
I posted it as an example here
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1031&message=30178738
hope you don’t mind

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