No, that doesn't persuade me, Piers :-). The position, such as lat
and long, are not important, but the level/not level position is. And
the accelerometers won't give any information when there is no
movement, whatever their relative positions or orientations. You need
a gyro-stabilised platform to give level.
I'm about to buy an iPhone which has accelerometers; perhaps that will
persuade me.
On 9 Mar 2009, at 17:50, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Presumably by having the two devices set at 180 degrees to one
> another, you
> can compare the readings from each and work out the attitude of the
> camera
> body without needing to know its absolute position. Thus the
> "leveller"
> simply allows you to adjust the camera attitude until the readings
> from each
> device are equal. I suspect "load cell" would be a better
> description than
> "accelerometer", though doubtless the latter incorporates the former.
>
Thank goodness *someone* was paying attention when I wasn't!
> And that would be stationAry, please, Chris!
Chris
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