vertical shooting - which way up?

Right eye, shutter button top right and right handed.

perryge wrote in post #5185531
Left-eyed, right-handed.
With grip: use grip shutter button.
Without grip: shutter button on top (right hand on top). I don't even get how you can shoot with it underneath.

That's exactly what I was wondering! How do you shoot comfortably with the shutter button down? I guess you get used to it, but it seems so counter-whatever. I'm shaken. Must take medication. Will report back as soon as the cosmos gives me the all-clear!

tonylong wrote in post #5185627
That's exactly what I was wondering! How do you shoot comfortably with the shutter button down? I guess you get used to it, but it seems so counter-whatever. I'm shaken. Must take medication. Will report back as soon as the cosmos gives me the all-clear!

What surprises me is that, according to the poll, there are people that shoot like that!

its EASY... you just bend that jointy thing at the bottom of your arm... um, name slips my mind temporarily, but i'm sure you have one too... it's the bit right before your hand spreads out flat...

and then your nose can sit comfortably beside the top of the camera (if you're a left-eye-shooter) instead of being crushed against the LCD

Hhhmmm...my medication hasn't kicked in yet, I'm sitting at my desk and contorting myself to do a "right hand down" position, and it seems like I'm, well, contorting myself. Have you perchance tried the right hand up position much?

And, if you use a grip or a 1-series camera, well, that's the way things work! By the way, if you shoot right-hand-down, do you have to rotate the pic on the computer? If so, I'd find that a sure give-away that something was amiss!

i dont have to rotate anything, both my cameras' sensors understand me perfectly!

its how ive always shot... since i was little
just feels like the right way to turn the camera, and its very steady
im planning to get a grip soonish, but may not even use the grip shutter because im so comfortable shooting this way, will have to see how it goes

I used to be unsure of which was was better for verticals. But then I got my grip and that made me shoot the correct way.

I shoot with left eye (easier with glasses IMO) and have no problem in vertical position.

perryge wrote in post #5185633
What surprises me is that, according to the poll, there are people that shoot like that!

Probably those who used to use a Metz "potato masher" style flash in the old days...
For me, the shutter button down went away when the Metz 45 went away

Great question! But I'm obviously in the minority here.

Right-handed, right-eyed, no grip, shutter button DOWN (camera body rotated 90 deg CW)

Chandler. wrote in post #5184153
I'm right eye, and I used to turn the camera so the shutter is on top. Now I turn the camera shutter-down so I can keep my elbow in to my chest and get steadier shots.

Agree 100% -- this allows me to pull my elbow in against my chest and provides added stability. Not double-jointed, it just "works" for me.

Interesting poll!

I am right handed and left eye dominant. I don't normally use a grip, and I mostly shoot vertically with the shutter button down. Occasionally I will shoot with it up depending on the position the rest of my body is in.

Interesting results. Where are all of the left handed photographers? Just 5 to date!
Shutter (button) on Top
Right eye
Left Handed

Left-handed, left-eyed, shutter on top.

I was surprised that there aren't more lefties out there too... this IS a creative endeavor after all. Isn't that the sort of thing we're supposed to be good at?

I was reading an article on how the "right handed world" unconsciously throws curves at left-handed people, and one of the things mentioned was that SLRs are biased because the shutter button is on the right side. I had never thought of that as an issue until I tried to shoot in M mode with my XTi and found that because I'm left-eyed, my nose was in the way of the AV+/- button.

I don't mean to thread-jack, though. Interesting reading all the responses and digging the poll.

Fidelio wrote in post #5188801
Left-handed, left-eyed, shutter on top.

I was surprised that there aren't more lefties out there too... this IS a creative endeavor after all. Isn't that the sort of thing we're supposed to be good at?

I was reading an article on how the "right handed world" unconsciously throws curves at left-handed people, and one of the things mentioned was that SLRs are biased because the shutter button is on the right side. I had never thought of that as an issue until I tried to shoot in M mode with my XTi and found that because I'm left-eyed, my nose was in the way of the AV+/- button.

I don't mean to thread-jack, though. Interesting reading all the responses and digging the poll.

I agree about the bias, but I must point out that in no way does left-handed = left-eyed. I'm a bit surprised by the poll actually because every right-handed photographer I know (including myself) is left-eyed.

Certainly true. At my old fencing club, we would do a little test on the new guys to see which eye was dominant... and then teach them to fence accordingly. I always thought it was interesting that our dominant hand doesn't necessarily match our dominant eye.

joeseph wrote in post #5184393
being in dumb mode, it took me several goes to work out that "shutter" in this poll means "shutter button"
Making things over-technical leading to brain failure...

HAHA, that made me laugh ...... dumb mode making things over-technical leading to brain failure haha

Right handed, left eye, grip, shutter button up