Robert Campbell
Well-known member
Horizons which are just a bit off are quite distracting for many of us. The usual advice is to use a hot shoe spirit level, or correct in pp.
So I found 3 hot shoe levels here, and tried them on a proper spirit level;
Not very encouraging -- two of them were considerably off the mark, the other not so bad -- but none was accurate.
So I then tried them on the Olympus E30 -- this has an electronic level, both side-to-side and front-to-back.
With the camera level, I got similar results -- two of them were way off, the other was a bit off
The particular tripod/head/plate combination has no less than 4 built-in bubble levels -- the circular ones.
I could not get all of the bubbles in the centre circle.
You might like to try to repeat this; but it looks as if hot shoe levels are none too accurate -- more of a guide than anything else; and for accurate horizons, you need to correct in pp.
So I found 3 hot shoe levels here, and tried them on a proper spirit level;
Not very encouraging -- two of them were considerably off the mark, the other not so bad -- but none was accurate.
So I then tried them on the Olympus E30 -- this has an electronic level, both side-to-side and front-to-back.
With the camera level, I got similar results -- two of them were way off, the other was a bit off
The particular tripod/head/plate combination has no less than 4 built-in bubble levels -- the circular ones.
I could not get all of the bubbles in the centre circle.
You might like to try to repeat this; but it looks as if hot shoe levels are none too accurate -- more of a guide than anything else; and for accurate horizons, you need to correct in pp.