Could it be that the stabilizing mechanism doesn't always park the sensor at
the same place?
Bill Pearce
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From: "swisspace" <swisspace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:39 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: My E-3 returns
>I noticed a similar problem when I was shooting with my E-3 at an
> airport, I aligned using the viewfinder against some straight edges, but
> when I saw the picture on the screen it was skewed, I tried this a few
> times and it was always the same. Then I swapped lenses and it was ok,
> so I tried the other lens again and it was also ok - strange I thought.
>
> So I managed to get time to set up the tripod and paper alignment chart,
> result I aligned the camera with live view and it looks fine, when i
> then look through the eyepiece it sometimes looks straight and sometimes
> skewed (also to my wife) - I wear glasses and wondered if that is the
> cause (though my wife doesn't), i.e I am not always looking directly
> straight through the viewfinder and with the E-3 having a larger
> viewfinder that it is now more of a problem
>
> It seems more prominent at the wide end rather than the long end, and I
> suspect it has something to do with the viewfinder rather than a tilted
> sensor.
>
> for those that have seen the problem, was it mainly at the wide end?
> and for those who tested and found no problem did you only test at the
> long end?
>
> Ian Nichols wrote:
>> Trouble is, I can't see that anything's been done to it. I tried
>> repeating the tests I did last time, and calclated the angle of
>> rotation. Before- 0.68 degrees; after - 0.55 degrees. I'm not sure
>> what the likely experimental error is, but I suspect 0.13 degrees
>> might be within it. I'm rather annoyed about that.
>>
>
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