From: Nervous Nick on
On Jul 23, 4:55 pm, "Dudley Hanks" <dha...(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
> "Nervous Nick" <nervous.n...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:3afcd77d-6982-41cd-bf8e-ceb36a573082(a)f33g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
> On Jul 23, 4:06 pm, "Dudley Hanks" <dha...(a)blind-apertures.ca> wrote:
>
> > Picked up a new monopod today.
>
> > It's nice and heavy, so when it hangs off the bottom, it gives me a good
> > indication of when the cam is level. I think it will help quite a bit.
> > However, there'll still be slanted horizons if I'm shooting diagonally. I
> > need to find a way to figure out when I'm square with the subject.
>
> Check this out:
>
> http://www.photographyblog.com/news/beeping_camera_spirit_level/
>
> Hey, that is coool...
>
> It just made it to my "Must Have" list...
>
> Thanks, Nick, for the heads up...

Let us know how it works out. It seems like a really clever gadget.