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Luke Miller · February 8th, 2017, 07:26 AM

I did a long event Friday with my LS-300 and HM-200 on tripods. Even though the tripod heads were carefully leveled I noticed in post that footage from both showed a definite cant, which was easily correctable. Both cameras were mounted to the tripod via Arca-Swiss plates attached to the tripod mount. When I looked carefully at the plates it was clear that they were slightly canted due to the bottom of the camera being slightly rounded. I will shim the plates to make them level, but it seems strange to have to do so. Anyone else seen this?

W. Bill Magac · February 8th, 2017, 10:12 AM

I experienced a similar problem with a Panasonic camera. I stopped using the tripod head's bubble level. If I was shooting indoors, I would focus on a door frame and line up the door frame with the camera's LCD frame markers to level the camera. There are small bubble levels that you can mount in your camera's hot shoe and use it to level the camera. B&H stocks a wide variety of camera bubble levels.

Luke Miller · February 14th, 2017, 01:24 PM

I shimmed both arca-swiss plates with a strip of gaffers tape. Now when the fluid head is level the cameras are as well :)

February 8th, 2017, 07:26 AM	#1
Luke Miller Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: King George, Virginia Posts: 112	Tripod Mount I did a long event Friday with my LS-300 and HM-200 on tripods. Even though the tripod heads were carefully leveled I noticed in post that footage from both showed a definite cant, which was easily correctable. Both cameras were mounted to the tripod via Arca-Swiss plates attached to the tripod mount. When I looked carefully at the plates it was clear that they were slightly canted due to the bottom of the camera being slightly rounded. I will shim the plates to make them level, but it seems strange to have to do so. Anyone else seen this?

February 8th, 2017, 10:12 AM	#2
W. Bill Magac Regular Crew Join Date: Jan 2017 Location: New England USA Posts: 79	Re: Tripod Mount I experienced a similar problem with a Panasonic camera. I stopped using the tripod head's bubble level. If I was shooting indoors, I would focus on a door frame and line up the door frame with the camera's LCD frame markers to level the camera. There are small bubble levels that you can mount in your camera's hot shoe and use it to level the camera. B&H stocks a wide variety of camera bubble levels. Last edited by W. Bill Magac; February 8th, 2017 at 08:19 PM.

February 14th, 2017, 01:24 PM	#3
Luke Miller Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: King George, Virginia Posts: 112	Re: Tripod Mount I shimmed both arca-swiss plates with a strip of gaffers tape. Now when the fluid head is level the cameras are as well :)