Dual-Axis Clear Bubble Level with Easy See Green Fluid

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Product Details

• Item Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000JOPYGW
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 17, 2003

Product Description

Simply slide into your hot-shoe for easy setup of level landscape or vertical format shots. Tubular style allows tilting of camera vertically and keeping horizontal level

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, reasonably priced, and tiny, February 6, 2008

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Mark J. Minasi (Virginia Beach, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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Some photographers have that "perfect eye" that allows them to always place the horizon perfectly parallel to the top and bottom of their pictures.

I'm not one of them!<g>

This little wonder is about the size of two dice, so it tucks away nicely in any camera bag, and slips into the flash shoe. It's got two bubble levels (one for when you shoot portrait, the other for when you shoot landscape) that instantly tell you if you're perfectly level. And the price is right. Nice work, folks!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why Did I Wait So Long to Buy This?, February 15, 2008

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Christian "cg" (Beaverton, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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I have a great tripod that has a bubble level on the tripod and a bubble level on the head. However, those levels are useful only when you want to shoot something that is level horizontally.

When I shoot pictures that are up or down in relation to the horizon I found myself having the need to know whether my camera was level or not. This little device solved that need! It can be used with your camera in landscape or portrait mode. Now my pictures are always level!

You put this level in the flash hot shoe. I rarely use a flash, but if I did need to, I would level the camera first, then take this level out and place my flash.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A useful tripod accessory, March 17, 2008

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R. Kreis "livedeadcat" (LA CA) - See all my reviews
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This two-axis spirit level can be a valuable aid when taking panoramic sequences to be stitched together, or if you want to avoid a "keystone" effect when shooting buildings. It works best when the camera is mounted on a ball-head tripod, as then only the camera will need leveling. When using a tilt-and-pan tripod, the tripod itself will need to be leveled in all quadrants before the camera can be made level for panorama sequences.

While the spirit level has been an effective leveling tool since its invention in the 17th century, error can be introduced at the point of attachment to the camera. The flash shoe is supposed to be parallel to the lens axis, but it may not be, especially if it has suffered a knock. Also, the leaf spring in the shoe may not hold the foot of the level properly against the shoe surface, a problem easily fixed by an attentive photographer.

This particular spirit level (Jobu, from Canada) seems constructed to last, used with care. It has two "feet," so it can be properly oriented with the camera in either horizontal or vertical position. One should be in the kit of every photographer using a tripod without its own built-in level.