A pupil on the UK’s Nottingham Trent College has designed an revolutionary modular digital camera that can be utilized by right- and left-handed customers alike. Known as the MC-1, this one-off design includes a central ‘hub’ part which appears to be like as if it will possibly perform by itself as a standalone digital camera. It has two massive purple shutter buttons, one on the highest panel and one other on the underside, enabling right- or left-handed use by merely flipping the digital camera over. We assume the rear display screen is touch-sensitive, as there does not appear to be another bodily controls on the primary digital camera, aside from these shutter buttons.
(Picture credit score: Rowan Baxter / Instagram)
To enhance ergonomics, a further grip module will be clipped to the aspect, and this additionally homes further bodily buttons to help digital camera management. If the digital camera is for use by a left-handed shooter, it may be rotated by 180 levels, and a bespoke left-handed grip module then clips to the left aspect of the primary digital camera unit.
Flipping the digital camera over for left-handed use guidelines out a standard, built-in viewfinder. To resolve this, the digital camera’s designer, Rowan Baxter, got here up with a separate viewfinder module that may be clipped onto both the highest or backside of the primary digital camera, relying whether or not the digital camera is in left- or right-handed orientation. Rails on the highest and backside surfaces allow the viewfinder module to simply hook into place.
(Picture credit score: Rowan Baxter / Instagram)
As this appears to be like like a prototype digital camera, we do not know a lot about its internals, solely that the sensor measurement is APS-C, and the core ‘hub’ module is “pocket-sized”. The lens fitted to the MC-1 we see within the Instagram Reel is a TTArtisan AF 27mm F2.8. This APS-C lens is barely obtainable in Sony E, Nikon Z and Fujifilm X mounts, so we assume the MC-1 is fitted with a type of mount choices.
The Yashica Samurai Z, and its left-handed variant, the Z-L (Picture credit score: Kyocera Yashica)
Although a left-handed digital camera could seem uncommon, this is not the primary time we have seen such a product. Again in 1987, Yashica launched the Samurai Z-L; an actual, mass-produced left-handed movie digital camera. It was primarily a flipped model of the corporate’s right-handed Samurai Z, with the grip and digital camera controls mirrored for left-handed customers. We have a separate story about that digital camera if you would like to know extra.
