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camera that has touch screen / easy to press shutter button

August 26, 2010, 08:29:15 PM

My uncle had an accident in his semi-truck that left him paralyzed from the chest down. He has some use of his arms and hands but cannot hold onto a camera and snap the shutter. He loves to take photos and I was looking for a way for him to continue. What I'm thinking is a decent lightweight point and shoot with one of those gorilla arm tripods that he can wrap around his wheel chair. What would be ideal would be a camera where the shutter can be triggered on a touch screen or even a very easy to press shutter button. Any ideas or suggestions would be much appreciated.

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Marian Murdoch

Reply #1 - August 27, 2010, 08:21:54 AM

My Nikon coolpix is very lightweight and takes great photos. I have an adapter that hooks onto my spotting scope and the adapter has a neat shutter release gadget that I would imagine you could use even without hooking it up to a spotting scope. It's like a wired shutter release, but without being plugged into the camera. (a prong reaches down and pushes on the shutter release button) This cord could easily be attached where he can reach it.

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jkleb

Reply #2 - August 30, 2010, 05:12:39 AM

I think there's a few different ones that have remote releases.

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Reply #3 - August 30, 2010, 07:32:30 PM

All he needs is a remote trigger. I have all the tools he would need to snap the shutter with his teeth. Manfroto makes a clamp that will attach pretty much anything to anything.

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Reply #4 - August 31, 2010, 08:38:57 AM

Quote from: BobEdens on August 30, 2010, 07:32:30 PM

All he needs is a remote trigger. I have all the tools he would need to snap the shutter with his teeth. Manfroto makes a clamp that will attach pretty much anything to anything.

Got a link to the manfroto stuff?

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