Left hand shutter release

Amedeo Muscelli

Amedeo Muscelli

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Greetings,

Five or six years ago, I have made +/- 30 left hand shutter release for Leica M and less of five for Nikon S, S2, in that moment I had conventional metalworking machines, making difficulty to manufacture.

Now I am thinking to make them again, this accessory is very nice to handle it and have a nice appearance.

Any comment is welcome.

Best regards,
Amedeo Muscelli

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These look great !

A little off-subject, Mr Muscelli, but since you seem to be doing market/product research:

I was always wondering why nobody picked up the machining of metal Unigrips, as Photo-equip (GMP) used to make them, for smaller cameras such as OMs, Bessas, Nikon FM, etc (they all have very similar size). The original, now discontinued GMP-grips had a movable tripod screw and could be adjusted to many small SLR and RF bodies. There is nothing really on the market anymore, everything available out there is too big for these bodies. Even the Cosina Voigtlander grip (too small, IMO) is very hard to find since discontinued.

Best regards,

Roland.
 
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I've sent you a PM, but you can reply here. I wonder if you will make them for the Canon Model P and L1 models? If you do, I'll buy one of each. They do appear to be very well made/ machined.

Thanks,
Bill
 
Bill58 said:
I've sent you a PM, but you can reply here. I wonder if you will make them for the Canon Model P and L1 models? If you do, I'll buy one of each. They do appear to be very well made/ machined.

Thanks,
Bill
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Hello Bill,
If there are persons interested in the Leica or Nikon left shutter, I could make them for you too. Any new product will need one or several programs for the CNC machines and take some time.
 
Amedeo:

Thanks for your reply. I guess I'll have to wait till you announce the Canon RF adapters are available for sale. I hope that's soon!

Thanks,
Bill
 
While your accessory looks to have first-class workmanship, I wonder about the market for such an accessory.
I'm a left-handed person, but do a number of things right-handed (such as playing golf, playing the guitar, umpiring-calling balls, strikes and outs in the right-handed fashion, and handling SLRs and rangefinder cameras) simply because when I first began learning these skills, right-handed was the way I was taught.
Sure there are some people in the world exclusively either left or right-handed who simply cannot learn to operate whatever with the other hand, but I've always assumed (and perhaps incorrectly) that in most cases most left-handed persons can, with a bit of practice learn to use right-handed based equipment without significant problems.
 
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Approximately 10% of the world are left handers and some of us, me included, have little dexterity w/ their right hand. I'd welcome this accessory.
 
Bill58 said:
Approximately 10% of the world are left handers and some of us, me included, have little dexterity w/ their right hand. I'd welcome this accessory.
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I quite understand your problem, because I know both lefties and righties who literally can't do anything with their other hand.
I'm lucky I guess, because while I'm not 100% ambidexterous, I can write with my right hand and perform many tasks as a right-handed person, without difficulty.
 
Bill58 said:
Approximately 10% of the world are left handers and some of us, me included, have little dexterity w/ their right hand. I'd welcome this accessory.
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But would it help? If you put the left to button duty, you'll have to use the right for the more difficult stuff like focusing or aperture setting - I always felt that the left-hand accessory grips to the Mamiya RB/RZ are not really useful for me (or lefties in general) for that reason.

Overall I consider the Leica/Contax camera arrangement very leftie-friendly - more so than the Exakta. Maybe the latter was a much more right-handed design than most right-handed people tend to believe after decades of inverted habits.
 
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