Posted by Martin Heffels on 07/05/06 08:40

On 5 Jul 2006 03:27:01 -0500, "Toby" <zdftokyo@gool.com> wrote:

>You do definitely need a level. It's very difficult to eyeball it through a
>viewfinder or on that small screen.

That's not really true. Quite often with architecture, a level camera gives
some weird looking buildings, especially when shooting a wide-angle, and
using the viewfinder, you can correct for that, making the image look more
interesting.

>One thing to keep in mind is that if you level the camera instead of the
>head, you are not necessarily going to get level pans (in fact if would be a
>huge surprise if you did). Leveling the camera will work for pans only if
>the camera is exactly parallel to the plane of rotation of the head.

Am important remark you make here, quite often overlooked! That means,
first set pan and tilt to the middle-marker.

cheers

-martin-
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"If he can he'll smile 'cos he's a Royal Crocodile."

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