Love you, Nikon! But...
I'm going to be ordering my Nikon D3 any day now. Great machine, great features, crippling price, etc. But there's one feature that really perplexes me:
They've built an electronic spirit level into the body. Great idea for levelling the camera without squinting at the bubbles in the cheapo plastic spirit level I use. But how come you only get left/right levelling? There's no front/back levelling! So the landscape photogs will be happy, but what about us poor architectural types? The left/right levelling is irrelevant without front/back feedback. So I've got to mount the pesky little plastic bubble on the hot-shoe, which means I needn't bother with the fancy built-in left/right leveller.
Silly Mr Nikon - an epic piece of professional camera engineering with just one (as far as I can see) half-baked, not-properly-thought-through gimmick feature.
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