Pistol grip with X cameras

[milandro]

Long ago, when I had a Rolleiflex ( I’ve had a few) I learned the obvious advantages of using a pistol grip especially in combination with a prism which changed the use of the camera from waist level to eye level.

 

This made a much more solid grip with a camera that is essentially a box.

 

I’ve been thinking for a while to do the same thing with my X-T1 and I was trying to buy one of these ( there are many cheap ones on the market) when I was actually given one which may have been originally having a shutter release or perhaps was used on a film camera like a Super 8. 

 

So here it is, apologies for the quality of the pics, obviously made with a not so good phone ( I don’t need a good phone camera, I am a proper photographer after all!).

 

There are obvious advantages in using this both for portrait shooting position ( vertical) or landscape ( horizontal) when one, like me, has chosen to use a Lplate.

 

You could, if you want to do this even faster, use an arca-clone plate on the grip and then switching would be a snip.

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Edited January 27, 2017 by milandro

[milandro]

and now this pistol grip used together with a monopod , great way to re use things that one might already have.

 

Note that I have installed an Arca compatible L plate clamp for quickly engaging and disengaging the camera

 

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[Morgo]

Does it come with a shoulder stock?

[milandro]

I suppose it can be done but using one would probably get me killed.

 

Anyway, such things are, believe it or not, already available. You just need to adapt them for your camera

 

Edited April 16, 2017 by milandro