Rob Studdert wrote:
On 29 Jan 2006 at 20:13, Gonz wrote:
I'm very disappointed with the viewfinder/base misalignment. This means
that you have to level the camera by looking through the viewfinder at
some reference (and ignore the viewfinder/sensor mis-alignment for now),
and not depend on the tripod being level. This is unacceptable, one
should not have to take a level with them to make their camera level, it
should be enough to get a rough leveling using the levels built into the
tripod head. The nicer tripods have two levels orthogonal to each
other, which should be sufficient to get a pretty decent leveling. This
defect is a real pain and should not happen in a camera like the D,
which is currently the DSLR standard bearer from Pentax. I'm wondering
whether this is happening pretty much on all *D cameras, or I have a
defective one. If you look at the design of the *D, the top, which is
what the viewfinder is aligned with, is definitely not parallel with the
base, which leads me to believe that all *D cameras have this problem.
The base should be your reference, what were you referring to when you
mentioned alignment WRT the "top"? Looking at various pics of the chassis I
doubt very much that the sensor could be misaligned as much as 1 degree given
the design and the apparent fixing points and guides. However the prism
alignment is likely the source of your woes, not great but understandable, it
only has to be rotated slightly to tilt the view. The prism is point clamped in
a plastic yoke, it should be able to be aligned by a tech pretty easily.
The base is my reference. When I level the base, i.e. its attached very
firmly to my tripod which has been leveled carefully, the viewfinder is
not level with respect to another level reference, i.e. a grid on a wall
perpendicular to my camera.
If I take a picture, the sensor is not level with the grid either. So
apparently both the viewfinder and the sensor are askew.
Rob Studdert
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Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
