As a right hooker I have often wondered how left-handed people manage with cameras that are always made with the important bits under the right hand. Would be a market for a camera specifically designed for left-handers?
William Fagan has reminded me that there is such a camera in the Westlicht Auction which takes place on June 11. It looks just like an early Leica but as seen through a mirror. Yet it isn’t a Leica, it is a Russian copy, apparently made in the 1980s. It even has a low serial number, 11.
William is following the progress of this camera which had an estimated value of between €500 and €700. Already, a week before the auction it has topped €750.
So if you fancy a left-hooker 1930 Leica copy, complete with reversed infinity lock hockey stick and left-hand shutter release, here’s your chance.
Find it at the Westlicht Auction.
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Looks like it comes with some mild brassing as well. Genuine through hard use photographing the patriotic labours of the Young Pioneers in the fields or maybe applied in a gulag with Soviet emery paper? If the latter they at least had the good sense not to overdo it.