Digital P&S for trembling hands?

[Dwig]

I recommend that you seriously consider rejecting any and all cameras that do not have an eyelevel VF.

Using an eyelevel VF allows you to hold the camera against your face. This will help tremendously. Holding a camera at arm's length to use a rear panel LCD finder is never as steady, tremor or not.

 

[Scrambler]

I have no interest in calling Scrambler's comment re: medication into question, but to add to his remark...according to the International Essential Tremor Foundation, there is currently no purpose-built medication for ET. The treatment options are not so cut and dried as to be easily relayed within a single forum post, by anyone. As with any health related topic, diagnosis and treatment are best handled by an appropriate medical professional in a clinical setting and not by anonymous internet commentary.

George, I support your comments (all of them, not just the section I have quoted above) and my point was not to suggest this is a simple solution but to suggest that there may be other approaches worth investigating. I quite deliberately did not name any medication, I recommended discussion with a qualified professional and I made the point that there were unwanted effects from any medication. I also made the point that tremor is a matter of degrees, with everyone having some amount. While I didn't state it explicitly, my implication was that while at times debilitating the condition isn't a complete departure from "normal functioning" and therefore doesn't have any sort of simple "cure."

I applaud your determination and your success. Many thanks for the additional information via the links.

 

[dbarnes]

Thank you for all the replies.