Why are most of my pictures tilted?

When I look at my handheld shot pics on the computer, then most of them have a slight tilt. 1 or 2 °degrees, clearly not a big deal but visible. I am just wondering, why I don't see that while I am taking the picture. Is that something other people encounter? Am I just a twisted photographer?

Example:

Not that unusual, especially when not carefully composing for quick snapshots. Some find that optional focusing screens with grid lines etched on them can greatly help during composition, but it still requires careful conscious effort.

One leg shorter than the other?

tzalman wrote in post #14459972
One leg shorter than the other?

Are you calling me crooked?

tzalman wrote in post #14459972
One leg shorter than the other?

I was thinking maybe the lens was not on completely!

I have the same issue, even with the grid. Sometimes I think it is the camera...

pbelarge wrote in post #14460174
I have the same issue, even with the grid. Sometimes I think it is the camera...

Yeah, one wishes that they could afix the sensor better in the camera; such shoddy manufacturing! And then you take another shot, and the bouncing mirror jars it back into proper position. Odd thing is that a tripod mounted camera doesn't resolve the sensor position via the reflex mirror jarring, I guess it is because of the tripod dampening the vibration?! If you take the camera off the tripod and walk around with it, sometimes the sensor goes back into the right position by itself, I guess because of the vibration of walking around; but othertimes it jars into the out-of-kilter angle.

Some other folks have issues with the AF sensor moving, and throwing their AF out of kilter from time to time, and they think it is the AF microadjustment that fixes the problem.



<tongue firmly in cheek>

It is entirely possible that the viewfinder optics in a relatively inexpensive camera is not quite square with the film frame or sensor. Tightening up tolerances to make everything perfect adds significant amounts to the cost of production.

The tolerance for a little slop in viewfinder alignment is probably one reason why the manufacturers often only let you see 95% or so of the whole image in the viewfinder.

Just put some lifts in one shoe.

I do it often, particularly with quick snapshots.
I don't think it's the camera at all, just me. If I make a conscious effort then it's not so bad and I can get it pretty close. But it's no big deal to sort out later. I'd rather have a cracking shot with 5 degrees of tilt than a perfectly straight mediocre one

Two solutions, first is hot shoe bubble level, especially with a tripod, other is DPP angle adjustment tool. Both works well for me

It's most likely you It's more difficult to notice a slight tilt when you take a photo because the subject still appears perfectly vertical to you in the viewfinder. The subject only becomes tilted once you look at the frame afterwards, which has been made to make the frame perfectly vertical and not your subject.

Jabbing at the shutter button instead of smoothly rolling in finger pressure could be making you push the camera down on the right side as you make the image.

Most often, our camera is not aimed perfectly parallel to the ground, so converging verticals are present to throw off one's perception of 'straight up', as shown here

For me, usually they're tilted because of distortion when I shoot wide. I might compose right but the image will still look crooked.