Hi Godfrey thanks for your solutions, I will go with number 3 ;-) How where the photographic results from your last holiday trip? anything to show yet?
greetings Markus >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Godfrey DiGiorgi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:48 AM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: Water level solution >> >> >>> has anybody of you found a nice detachable water level solution to >>> be added >>> directly on the camera body or a monopod >>> or tripod? Maybe with some sort of sticky tape? >>> >>> I saw that I'm not very good holding the camera absolutely >>> horizontallY with >>> the 17mm and 24mm and maybe that would help. >>> >>> Stupid question: why not build such a thing directly into the >>> camera body >>> and make it visible in the viewfinder? >> >>Possible solutions are >>1) Pick a focusing screen with horizontal and vertical reference lines >>2) Use a level in the accessory shoe >>3) Fit a level to the tripod head >>4) Glue a level to the camera body >> >>I use solutions 1, 2 and 3. When I had SLRs without an >>interchangeable focusing screen, I had a custom focusing screen made >>and fitted to give me the reference grid. >> >>As to why no one has built a level into the viewfinder, well, someone >>did: Hasselblad's SWC cameras have had a bubble level incorporated >>into the viewfinder since 1959. >> >>Godfreuy >>
