On Tue, 03 Jul 2001 19:14:29 GMT, Not A Speck Of Cereal wrote:

>As bigrocketman3@webtv.net (Steve McDonald) so eloquently put:
>[]
>[] I can't recall having had much need for a leveling-bubble, as my
>[] sense of dead-reckoning was good enough.

>My dead-reckoning for left-right plane is okay, but I've found that my
>up/down reckoning wasn't so good, something you only discover when you
>pan.

I haven't seen a bubble level yet that was accurate enough (and
easy enough to see) to be useful - leveling relative to tele views
of vertical edges at 90 degrees (with the camera sighted level - or
aimed at viewing height) appears more useful, if a bit painful...;-)

>[] But, a tension control on the
>[] vertical movement of the head is a must, as well as a dependable lock on
>[] all directions of motion.

>Aye. The 3433 seems to have that.

So does the 3063...
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