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View Poll Results: Weekly Poll: Upper or Downer (when holding your camera for portraits)
Upper (the button is on the top) 67 71.28%
Downer (the button is on the bottom) 27 28.72%
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Old 07-04-2008, 10:22 PM
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Default Weekly Poll: Upper or Downer
Whenyou shoot in portrait are you an upper



or a downer



I've always been an upper but I've seen a lot of pros shooting as downers so...


How do you do it? And why?
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Old 07-04-2008, 11:13 PM
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I am neither. I am a camera grip with secondary controls. :-)
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Old 07-04-2008, 11:14 PM
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I am neither. I am a camera grip with secondary controls. :-)
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Old 07-05-2008, 12:45 AM
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Upper. I don't use a neck strap, instead I have a hand strap and my D80 hangs down quite naturally from it your "upper" position. My hands are on the small side and I almost never run out of battery juice, so I don't have an interest in the battery grip.
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Old 07-05-2008, 01:08 AM
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I'm a downer myself. By the way, it's good to see what you look like!
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Old 07-05-2008, 01:21 AM
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I'm an upper, but the fiance is a downer.
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Old 07-05-2008, 01:23 AM
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An upper. Seems more natural to me.
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Old 07-05-2008, 03:27 AM
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I was an upper for years; I now have a batter grip with a second set of controls
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Old 07-05-2008, 08:36 AM
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Both - I'm not consistent. I haven't figured out if my choice is random or if it is affected by other factors but I'm not sure it makes much difference to the end result either way.

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Old 07-05-2008, 09:40 AM
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A previous upper kinda guy - but now a battery grip owner and user.
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