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.
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Mannen … * http://www.friedabblog.wordpress.com * Holland * 3-3-2020, 17.15 uur . . .
Thanks ☺
Fantastic repurposing of old levels, David 😃
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.
This one made me smile. How did you manage to get the big ones level and the small ones not quite?
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.