a6500 thumb grip with cold shoe

There's a few thumb grips available for this camera, given that it's quite compact and streamlined (completely unergonomic), but none of them quite do what I want. So I made my own.

• Most of them get in the way of the mode dial. This one doesn't. Might not be suited to smaller hands however.
• Very few provide a replacement for the accessory attachment point they take up. This one does. I designed it specifically to suit the Olympus EE-1 Dot Sight snugly - it may be slightly tight on other accessories.
• And of what ticks those two boxes, none of them support the pressure of the thumb against the body (since they're all for a range of a6x00 cameras, which vary in exact dimensions), instead acting as a lever torqueing the hot shoe. This one fits along the back step of the camera, so the forces are all lateral. I don't know if this is important but I like it.

This is a very small print with tight requirements on dimensional accuracy (especially if you're mounting a sight that you want to be stable). My printer turned it out slightly over dimension, and a small file took it back to where it should be and everything is a nice snug fit. YMMV.

I printed mine “face down” so the shoes can be printed without being full of support material. However, this meant that the front of the shelf behind the thumb area sagged just a little bit, and needed some filing so the flash can clear the grip.