This is a contribution to Jez Braithwaite’s Fan Of… #57.
These are the various spirit (bubble) levels I use to level cameras. The large ones are carried in each of my regularly used camera bags. They were originally used for leveling desktop processors in darkrooms. I walked into a camera store in the early 1990s and there was five of the levels on sale in the corner of a display cabinet. I brought them all and have been using them on the quick release clamps of my various tripod heads ever since.
The smaller (inaccurate) levels I glue to camera supports and brackets with epoxy resin. The epoxy allows me to adjust the level so that it reads accurately.
I still use them despite many of the modern digital cameras have electronic levels built in.
Mannen … * http://www.friedabblog.wordpress.com * Holland * 3-3-2020, 17.15 uur . . .
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Thanks ☺
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Fantastic repurposing of old levels, David 😃
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Thanks Jez. I wonder what happened to all the various processing equipment when digital pretty much killed off the darkroom/processing lab. There’s probably thousands of those 5 inch levels in landfills around the world.
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This one made me smile. How did you manage to get the big ones level and the small ones not quite?
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The big ones are accurate, they’re about 5 inches long and were originally used for leveling desktop film and print processors. The small, inaccurate ones came off eBay and I make them accurate by gluing them to camera mounts and brackets with epoxy resin. The exopy allows me to adjust the level so that it reads accurately.
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