On 8 Apr 2006 at 14:40, Glenn wrote: > Hi all, > > For as long as I've owned my *istD, I've spent lots of time rotating > and cropping pictures to correct the horizon. I always assumed that I > was just sloppy when framing my shots. But I did a quick experiment > recently where I carefully lined up the focus screen marks with > straight horizontal lines and took some test pictures. The shots all > came out about 1 1/2 degrees off from level. Is this a problem with > the sensor alignment? Is the focusing screen or prism somehow out of > position? Could any of these be fixed? Somehow all these possibilities > bother me more than when I thought I just couldn't hold a camera > level.
Set the camera on a level surface (don't use a tripod and QR plate, and don't use a hot shoe mounted level) and take a pic of the horizon or a building and at least you'll have some idea whether it's the sensor of the finder system. My bets are on the finder being out of alignment. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
