Level Problems

[daviebroon]

Hi all,

I seem to be having a problem with my horizons/levels. I try my damnest to keep them straight/horizontal across the screen... but always end up being squint. What always looks straight in the viewfinder, ends up being all over the place.

Even using the camera's electronic 9pane split on the screen to line up the horizon, it always comes out all skeewiff. Whether i use a tripod or just in my hand, the results the same.

Any thoughts on what i'm doing wrong? Camera is an FZ18, with OIS so its not like i'm moving the camera when snapping. Even tried a 2 second timer to see if that was the problem. Same results though. It happens on 80% of landscape pics. Thing is... it happens on both axis so leads me to think i'm a mong rather than the camera. Is it just me, or is it actually quite hard to get a perfect split across the screen?

see... (ignore the quality, photobucket has ruined it on on resizing the pics)

Even on close-ups, they appear pretty to go on a slant

even pic that aren;t necessarily a landscape pic seem to come out squint. Theres uneven areas around it

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[BenWall]

I think your being more conscious of it, if you didn't mention it and just showed the pictures I wouldn't notice.

 

[Andi-B]

^^ Same here, but if you want to be precise .. Go buy one of these or buy a tripod with one built in.

 

[dunganick]

i think you will find most togs struggle to get their horizons exactly right, almost every photographer i know will quickly edit any photos they wish to sell/publish etc... about 75% of my shots are cropped and horizons fixed before i do anything with them or show them to anoyone.