I'm 100% left-eyed (in fact that's why I had power winders on all my film cameras). You soon get used to turning the camera the "other" way so you can use the vertical release buttons.
Although I've taken the grip off my *ist D to give me a lighter walk-around camera (with the kit 18-55), the grip stays on the K10D all the time. I wouldn't want to go back to hand-holding the 80-200/2.8 without the grip mounted. On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Axel Belinfante wrote: > this pigues my interest. > > I'm mostly using my left eye. any left-eye-ers that use grips? > I'm curious about vertical usage experience - to use the > additional buttons camera should be rotated counter-clockwise > (right hand highest) whereas I typically use k10d left hand highest. > > now that I think about it, when I used Z1 with hot-shoe mounted > flash vertically, I would actually use it right-hand-highest, > to have the flash above the lens. > > Axel. > > > William Robb responded: > > > From: "David J Brooks" > > > > > Any one using this grip. > > > > > > My plan is to have a look at the 60-250 F4 when it is released > > > hopefully in the not to distant future, and use the K10D as my prime > > > equine camera. My D200 gives me good static shots, but my action shots > > > tend to be soft. I like the colour and richness of the K10D > > > presentation shots i have done in the past. The small amount of action > > > stuff looked pretty good to. I have to less PPing with the K10D as > > > opposed to the D1H and D2H. > > > > > > If i go this route, and get the 60-250, i think it will be a large > > > some what heavy lens and which would help by getting the grip. > > > > > > Any one using it feel it helps in balance of larger lenses. > > > Does it let you know individual battery strengh like the D200. > > > Do you think 1 Pentax battery and 1 3rd party battery in the grip > > > would last for 450-550 shots, with chimping. > > > > The grip does a very nice job of balancing off bigger lenses. I routinely > > use an 80-200/2.8, and much prefer the way the camera handles with the grip > > on the camera. > > If the 3rd party battery is equivalent to the Pentax battery, you should > > have no problem. > > The grip allows you to choose the battery order that the camera uses. The > > choices are simultaneous, or you can choose to drain either the camera > > battery or grip battery first. > > I have my camera set to drain the grip battery, then switch over to the > > camera battery when the grip battery dies. It can be a moment of > > inconvenience, as the camera must be turned off and then on when the > > battery > > dies, but I like knowing when I am at the 50% point for battery consumption. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
