This Space for Rent

Cool shot! I have a lensbaby, but I can’t get good photos with it… gotta keep trying!

The trick I’ve found to make the lensbaby work is to completely ignore the official lensbaby “use both hands to focus” suggestion; I wrap my left hand around the body of my *istDS and hold the front element of the lens between my index and ring fingers, like so:

and this leaves my right hand free to steady the camera and press the shutter release.

The *istDS is a small SLR (I think that Nikon has a DSLR that’s a hair smaller than it is, but all of the other big dog (Canon, Nikon) offerings seem to be substantially larger than it) so this grip might not work with a larger camera. I’ve got enough extra reach so I can hold the camera in my left hand and focus it without fearing that I’ll drop it in the process of taking a picture, so I could probably use this grip with something as large as a (lapses into uncontrollable drooling) K20, but I don’t know if it would work for someone with smaller hands.

The thing I found with the two-handed crab grip is that the focus point would lunge off to one side or another when I tried to focus the damned thing, plus it just feels wrong to delicately tweeze the camera body with both hands when I’m trying to get a picture.