Oh, yeah. I kind of like circular levels too. Just seem easier. Levels
seem important to me if doing something like a panorama which requires
a level pan. Otherwise it seems to me that eyeballing it is good enough
so long as you pay attention to what you are doing.
Winsor
Long Beach, California
USA
On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
> I assume that is a pan-tilt head with the levels built in. Many of us
> use ballheads and are pretty well stuck with something in the flash
> shoe if we have to be persnickety. I can't imagine a flash shoe
> alignment being out of line enough to make any photographically
> significant error in level unless the pentaprism has been smashed. But
> I could be wrong.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, CA
> USA
> On Aug 11, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Moose wrote:
>
>> I rather like circular levels, and the one on the 410 head works
>> pretty
>> well for me. I can't imagine a flash shoe mounted unit being an
>> improvement, since the base of the camera is more carefully aligned
>> with
>> the film than the flash shoe is likely to be. The 3047 head has large
>> individual levels for the 2 axes, but is harder to adjust exactly
>> level
>> than the 410.
>
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