{"id":980,"date":"2007-11-17T12:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T12:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=980"},"modified":"2007-11-17T12:41:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T12:41:32","slug":"a-gripping-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"A Gripping Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for Part Two of my gripping tale of how I hold my Sony Alpha 700. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/?p=978\">Part One is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/hg1.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is the standard, intuitive grip. The thumb lands on the AF\/MF button, but the Drive, WB and ISO buttons are notably out of reach, on the top surface. A few friends who had the A700 also wondered if we had the common affliction of having Asian-sized hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wkcheang.blogspot.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">wkcheang<\/a> also reports discomfort, that the bottom-right corner of the camera leaves uncomfortable pressure upon his palm. I never faced such a problem; I always felt it to be soft and rounded.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/hg3.jpg\"><br \/>\nThose of you who have had a smaller SLR would probably tuck their last finger under the grip. I used to do that with my ol&#8217; Sony Alpha 100.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/hg2.jpg\"><br \/>\nHowever, when I do that with the A700, something else happens &#8211; my thumb can now reach the top three buttons with ease, and the first joint of my thumb presses the AF\/MF button and operates the rear dial!<\/p>\n<p>The aforementioned pressure to the palm is also gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glaringnotebook.com\/zimages\/hg4.jpg\"><br \/>\nAnd this is the leftie grip which I learnt from <a href=\"http:\/\/asyraflee.blogspot.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Asyraf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedadnan.com\" target=\"_BLANK\">Ted<\/a>. With some amount of dexterity, you could even operate everything with your left hand alone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And now, for Part Two of my gripping tale of how I hold my Sony Alpha 700. Part One is here. This is the standard, intuitive grip. The thumb lands on the AF\/MF button, but the Drive, WB and ISO buttons are notably out of reach, on the top surface. A few friends who had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glaringnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}