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vidrazor said:
Is it strictly an X-axis leveler, or does it give you Z-axis tilt as well? If so then it's a true leveler. Otherwise don't chuck the spirit level just yet. :-)
Like rbid said it's only an x-axis tilt leveler but I've never been in a situation where I wanted to level my camera on the z-axis as well. Tilting my camera about the z-axis would change the whole perspective of my image so I use it strictly as a composition tool.
iris chrome said:
Like rbid said it's only an x-axis tilt leveler but I've never been in a situation where I wanted to level my camera on the z-axis as well. Tilting my camera about the z-axis would change the whole perspective of my image so I use it strictly as a composition tool.
True.
Another item that may help you is the grid that can be displayed in the viewfinder. (I don't use it)
>>Like rbid said it's only an x-axis tilt leveler but I've never been in a situation where I wanted to level my camera on the z-axis as well.<<
When you shoot panoramas, being level on X and Z axis allow you to maintain as much vertical image data as possible.
True, you need more than this for good panoramas, even a good tripod that allows to work on the "Nodal" point of your lenses may help.
A panoramic head is always best of course. Although it's not perfect, you can make decent panoramas shooting HANDHELD using the free open source program Hugin. It's an excellent panorama creation program.
Although you can't appreciate it at this resolution (I know of no site you can upload hi-res images for free ;-), this is a handheld panorama made with Hugin:
http://tinyurl.com/3p764dn
The original is a 55 megapixel file.
I use a level tripod to minimize vertical image loss. I made another one with my D5100 that's around 144 megapixels. If you're curious to try Hugin, go here:
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
It's free, enjoy it!
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