He meant, of course, the the accelerometers are not suitable for
leveling boxes of paper products.
Chuck Norcutt
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.
>
> And that would be stationAry, please, Chris!
>
> Piers
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 March 2009 16:32
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] Mammoth E-30 Product Review - Zone-10 Website
>
> Thanks, Ken.
>
> I have never heard of a "digital leveller" before and I can't see how it
> might work using 2 accelerometers.
>
> An accelerometer measures the acceleration of a moving object, not that of a
> stationery one (!). Unless the camera has an inertial platform, and an idea
> of what the earth's acceleration should be for its position on the earth's
> surface, I can't see how having 2 accelerometers give it a levelling
> instructions.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Chris
>
> On 8 Mar 2009, at 23:33, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Shameless Plug Alert:
>> Zone-10 has published an extensive product review of the new Olympus
>> E-30.
>> There's stuff in there that you'll not find in other reviews! Khen
>> must have steroid-driven typing fingers.
>>
>> Also, we have rearranged the product reviews and they are now listed
>> in the left-hand column for easy finding.
>>
>> http://www.zone-10.com
>>
>> Thank you
>
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