the ergonomics of a house brick

A complainant often leveled at medium format system cameras, like the hasselblad 500 series and the zenza bronicas is the phrase "the ergonomics of a house brick", to an SLR user on the face of it this maybe true to look at, a MFs (medium format system camera) once handled for only a few minuets it's easy for the mind and hands to adapt to the style of looking down rater than threw. that said there where attempts to bridge the gap with grips replicating the action of a traditional SLR, with thumb coking lever, and with eye level prisms it still left the MFs cumbersome to handle due in most part to the shear wight of the system lifted up to eye level, this lead to most MFs being relegated to studio work from a tripod and left the 35mm SLRs to the outside work.