I tried mine against the wall this morning, Ian. It's OK.
Good luck getting yours adjusted.
Chris
On 2 Mar 2008, at 14:46, Ian Nichols wrote:
> My tale really starts with this picture:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ynqmdz
>
> Which I took on my first outing with the E-3 back in December. You'll
> notice it's not aligned perfectly, it's rotated ant-clockwise
> slightly. This bothered me a bit, because I was sure I'd paid special
> attention to alignment at the time. I let it pass and resolved to pay
> more attention in future. But then I kept noticing that I seemed to
> have lost the knack of holding a camera level, not that I considered
> myself particularly skilled there, but I noticed a difference. Then
> there was TOPE 33. That one came out straight. I used live view for
> that. Hmm, I tried an experiment.
>
> I found a piece of old worktop with a nice orthogonal pattern on it,
> set up the E-3/50mm f/2 macro pointing straight down at it (used a
> spirit level), aligned the pattern with the image edges using live
> view and took a picture. Here it is, shrunk to 1600x1200 pixels.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2sekcr
>
> Perfectly aligned, I hope you'll agree. Then I opened the eyepiece
> shutter and looked through the optcal viewfinder. It was noticeably
> out of alignment, so I rotated the camera (using the geared head)
> until it was back in alignment and took another picture. This is what
> the sensor saw:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/37ztth
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