In my post on
different ways to hold the LS800, I mentioned that I wasn't sure which portrait was really intended by the designers to be the principal one. Holding it with the battery on the left is designated as the primary portrait position, but this puts the buttons at the top. This turns out to be a real problem, because the directional control doesn't change its directional sense between the various rotations! The only time they are "right" (i.e. "down" is the same as pressing the down-arrow key) is in secondary portrait (with the battery on the right). This cannot be reprogrammed through the control panel (it even says so in the manual on p. 70). What's worse is that in primary landscape -- the position the seems to be favored -- you press right to go down and down to go left. This is kind of clumsy design.