My Camera is Crooked

20droger wrote in post #2900850
Must have been one of those new-fangled rectangular lenses.

I seriously don't know what the problem was, but it was determined by Nikon to be the lens.

SkipD wrote in post #2900217
I would suggest doing another "brick wall" test, but with the camera mounted on a tripod for the test. Don't use any of the focus points or other things in the center of the viewfinder as a reference, but use the outer edges of the viewfinder frame as the reference. Align the outer edges of the viewfinder to the brick wall's lines and shoot a test or two. Then let us know what you found.

i get the same thing on every camera that i've owned because i don't hold the camera straight.

ed rader

Ok guys - guess I'm just about convinced I can't shoot straight. Did a test using tripod and bubble and the results look pretty good to me. Looks like I need more practice. So I'm not supposed to use the focus points for alignment - ummmmm.

Has anyone looked these focus grids?
http://www.katzeyeopti​cs.com …rop-Lines--gridlines.html

Anyway- Thanks for all the suggestions. Will conduct experiments next time before I post such an obvious - "USER ERROR"

Test image posted below and another image I used to think was staight - now it looks a little tilted too.

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Are you saying that you are not a "straight shooter"? I think that you need to to concentrate on keeping the camera body level without regard to what you perceive as horizontal lines in the frame of view.

About the only times that you can use a horizontal line as a reference is when you can see the true horizon or you are aiming the camera squarely at a horizontal reference. Any other horizontal line in which one end in your frame of view is closer than the other end will be angled away and if you use any horizontal part of the viewfinder (border or focus points) to align with it, then you will be rolling the camera about the line-of-sight axis.

Calf roper is tilted the opposite way that the original pics are. Looks like operator error.

Simple solution ... get a 5D. Then you have enough room to crop a straight picture out of it

No, seriously ... I remember another thread on the same issue where it was suggested that sometimes the act of pressing the shutter button might skew the camera.

Best regards,
Andy

It's that well-known phenomenon of shooter's torque - unless you pay close attention to your framing, you will get wonky horizons. In some pictures it is far more noticeable than in others, that's all.

I find this a constant struggle. I try to make a point of checking for straightness before hitting the shutter button, but am constantly amazed at how many wonky horizons I get.

I'm no good in PP straightening either...

I just call it "my style" now....LOL

Hmmm...

Wonder if this is analogous to milking the trigger.

-F

I thought tilted pics were a feature of my xt. It has always made crooked pictures. If you line up stuff in the vf it is always tilted in the final picture. 3 different lenses do this. I thought it was normal (snicker).

do a self portrait shooting into a mirror and post the results.
my guess is one of 2 things, improper hold, too tight a grip on the camera.

naw, it's not

I definitely have a tendancy to have about a 1 degree lean to my photos. I have to work pretty hard to avoid it. Before I press the shutter I look to each side of the frame and compare the horizon to the viewfinder. After performing this exercise thousands of times, I now only have the odd frame or 2 that is tilted.
The first example you posted is nearly level, but you have quite a bit of lens distortion. If you post a grid over the photo the left vertical line is just ever so slightly tilted. But the horizontal lines and right verticals are way off. To have an object look square with a WA lens you need to be directly in front of the object(you are slightly to the right) and then you need to split the difference of the distortion. On the second example, there really isn't a square line in the photo, so you have to be very careful to find the horizon in all of the angles. I would pick a good vertical line near the center of the frame(the corner of the church for example)and line that up as my vertical.
I just got back from a trip with a buddy of mine, he used my camera a bit and I could immediately tell which photos he took: every one had a tilt to the left. You aren't the only one, it just takes some practice looking around the whole frame.

I used to have the same problem. I switched my wallet to the other pocket which seemed to fix it.

take a picture of a carpenters level. If the level is level then it will be apparent whther the camera is level or unlevel.

level

Reefbone wrote in post #3108488
I used to have the same problem. I switched my wallet to the other pocket which seemed to fix it.

LMAO!!!

I used to carry my spare change in my right pocket, now I carry it in my left.
And .. I play much better golf!

On a side note tho .. when I was on a tripod .. I did notice that I could never get the horizon straight ..
This was when I first got my 300D .. My model said the same thing about her 20D.
We concluded that the earth was "crooked"