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Re: [OM] RE:Tall Tripods

Subject: Re: [OM] RE:Tall Tripods
From: "John A. Prosper" <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 16:28:43 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Buddy Walters wrote:

|John,
|Next time you shoot some landscape, check to see how level your horizons are
|with your new taller pod.  John Shaw said in his tapes that if you use a
|short pod, and look through your right eye, your horizon will have a
|tendency to tilt to the left.  Left eye = tilt to the right.
|This was one of the first things I checked out after I got my taller pod and
|he was right!
|And I even use a grid screen!

I've got a spirit level on the tripod and on the leveling base.  I
learned early on to be wary of tilting horizontals.



|-----Original Message-----
|From:John A. Prosper
|Buddy
||PS, Congrats on your new Pod set up!
|
|Thanks, Bud!  It feels GREAT to finally own a tripod which raises the
|camera to eye level.  (I am 6 feet tall.)  I am no longer confined to
|stooping for images. ;-D
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