[Leica] Re: Leveling

[bill at grimwood.net (Bill Grimwood)]

I have a good friend that always gets his shots off level even when using a 
tripod.  He will get his wife or me to check for him.  I was also impressed 
with the Digilux 2 in Williamsburg.


Bill Grimwood


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leveling


> On 11/3/04 11:50 AM, "Tina Manley" <images@infoave.net> typed:
>
>> At 02:37 PM 11/3/2004, you wrote:
>>> I find that nearly all my pictures are tilted the same amount.
>>> Today while looking in my barbers mirror i found that i tilt my head and
>>> neck slightly.
>>> I postulate that is were the small tilt comes from.
>>> best
>>> simon jessurun
>>> amsterdam
>>
>> I do the same thing.  Everything is tilted very slightly to the left
>> because I hold my head that way.  I have a grid in the viewfinder of my 
>> R8
>> that cures that but it's also very easy to fix in Photoshop.  Does
>> everybody know about how to use the measure tool to straighten the
>> horizon?  It's really neat.
>>
>> Tina
>>
> I use grids for as many cameras as I can for when I want stuff level but I
> don't think it's how you hold your head which makes for all this.
> Its how you hold your hands and an inner ear pituitary thing.
> I'm more than half serious.
> There is such a thing called perfect plumb.
> Like perfect pitch in music.
> It's perfect pitch as in when you look at something not tilting anywhere
> near as much as the leaning tower of pizza you still know it's leaning.
> Like perfect pitch in music you can be born with it or you can develop it
> thought practice.
> I think that might be it.
> Would work on the horizontal as well as vertical.
> Portrait as well as landscape. :)
> Good thing for carpenters to have.
> Harrison Ford has it.
> He is a carpenter. Now as an avocation. Before as a profession.
> When he builds a barn; it's straight. Or has one built.
> Maybe he can take a level picture with out an architectural grid.
>
> I was very impressed in Williamsburg using the Digilux 2 with that thirds
> tic tak toe grid in.
> I'll make some out of acetate for other of my cameras I think.
>
> Devinci ize my digital.
>
> Gee I just Goggled the rule of thirds and you're supposed to put stuff on
> the lines. I was putting them in the spaces. I'm not sure what to do.
>
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
>
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