Re: D200 bad for left-eyed people

On Nov 27, 4:45 am, Chris Malcolm <c...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RichA <rander3...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 25, 11:39 pm, Roy Smith <r...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Having now owned my D200 for almost a year, I finally figured out one of
the bizarre little twists of the camera. The focus area selection has
always been a bit of a mystery to me. I'd set what I want, and some time
later, it would be on some other setting, and I'd have no clue what I did
to change it.

Today, I finally got it.

I'm left eyed. When I hold the camera with the viewfinder to my left eye,
the 4-way selector button and the tip of my nose occupy the same point in
space. It would seem that all this time, I've been pushing the button with
my nose and not noticing it.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do to fix this problem, but understanding
what has been going on certainly removes some of the mystery. A nose job
is not in the cards, but I'll figure something out :-)
Thanks to the croaking old film users, we are stuck with DSLRs that
look and act like film cameras. Innovation in design (like perhaps
designing a DSLR that would allow you to keep a free eye open to the
world), will likely never appear.

Were there not some film SLRs that allowed you to do that? Mine
didn't, so I often used a tripod when it wasn't necessary for shutter
speed, just because it let me look at the scene with the naked eye
without disturbing the carefully selected camera position. Being able
to use both eyes while looking through my R1's viewfinder is one of
its features I rather like. I've met some DSLR users who use vertical
format more often than they otherwise would, just to be able to use
both eyes in that fashion.


Like I said, design is being stifled by convention, unfortunately.
.

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