[Leica] Left handed camera

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Leo's question is serious. Our university has a handicapped student's studio
featuring big screen displays with text the size of newspaper headlines,
text to voice translators, one handed keyboards (left or right, take your
choice), standing desks, speed changing recorders for slowing down speech,
clocks with braille faces, etc. A one handed camera seems a natural. Apart
from the Kine Exacta which several Luggers have mentioned, several other
cameras facilitate left handed operation. The Rollei 35 can be held upside
down and operated with the left hand. That's the way you have to hold it to
use a flash. Most P&S digital cameras can be used upside down and operated
with the left hand. Since the majority of P&S digitals use an LCD screen
instead of an optical viewfinder and have auto focus and auto exposure all
you have to do is make sure you can press the shutter release with the left
hand. My wife's Canon SD1200IS can be used exactly that way. When I was
taking 8mm movies, I had a Bolex pistol grip that held the camera and took
pictures when I squeezed the trigger. It didn't matter which hand I held it
in.
Larry Z