Tuesday 29 January 2008

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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