Concept cameras are usually little more than a GGI-rendered wish-list, the creator’s own dream-machine mocked up on-screen. But this concept Sony Alpha DSLR from Abel Verdezoto is both restrained and remarkably smart.
Well, almost. Verdezoto has decided to swap around and detail the positions of every button and dial, but the big design win is the face-friendly rear panel. Instead of being a vertical, cliff-like slab, the back of the camera slopes inward from the top, away from you. This gets the LCD panel and everything else out of the way of your nose and cheeks and lets your eye rest comfortably on the viewfinder. And lest you worry that the angle of view on that LCD will be compromised, the panel is hinged to flip out when needed.
The sloping back has another advantage: a more natural angle for the wrist when holding the camera to the eye. The hands tip back and the camera sits atop the meat of the thumb instead of tipping forward. Ingenious.
After that, though, it all gets a little crazy. The add-on flash, for instance, has a couple of telescoping legs to let you get it further from the lens-axis. Go take a look: it seems ready to snap as fast as Olive Oyl’s legs. Otherwise, though, the design is excellent.
Prototipo reflex con nueva ergonomía [Tecnofotografía via Yanko. Thanks, Radhika!]
