Levelling: [was Re: [Leica] More snaps (Skopar)]

[pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)]

How did we live without Photoshop?  Well we put graph paper on the enlarger 
easel, and then rotated it for the horizon.  We also tipped the easel up by 
various corners until the building verticals were straight.  For small 
corrections a pile of pennies under the easel corners worked nicely.  And 
if you tipped the easel up much, you had to dodge down the print as you 
exposed it.

Or, you just photographed mostly people and tried not to worry about it too 
much.  Straight horizons and parallel verticals are bourgeois concepts.  :-)

Shh, Ted, don't tell Sandy I said that!

--Peter

Dick Taylor wrote:
>Accurate reference lines in the finder are the only answer, as was
>mentioned earlier this morning, but the the lines must be confirmed
>square to the camera film gate, too.
>
>Photoshop is easier.  How did we ever live without it?