THE GUY WITH THE TURNED EYE

Hello everybody, I really dont know if its possible something in my XT to be wrong, visor or sensor rotated or missplaced, or definitly i have to go to the optometrist to rotate my eye, or maybe I have a leg shorter than the other or wich may be more common, an newbee problem.

Im using the 18-55 lens kit and almost all my pictures appear rotated a little clockwise, most notable on the left side. Altough i allways try to get horizontal and vertical references on the edge of the visor my pictures are still rotated, obviously more in wide but also in tele.

Is there a kind of test i can do, to verify and correct the man-machine error??

It's possible that your focusing screen is tilted.

Easy enough to tell: take a picture of a straight horizontal line, being careful to line the focusing dots up with the line. It should be straight in the picture.

-js

I forgot to mention: I have this problem all the time. It's definitely me, not the camera. I just have to pay attention...

-js

Using the suggestion above I'd also use a tripod. When handholding you may be introducing a slight clockwise tilt when depressing the shutter.

Put your camera on a tripod and use a level to set horizon--then shoot the leve using the timer function to eliminate hand pressure.

jgogums wrote in post #4044350
Using the suggestion above I'd also use a tripod. When handholding you may be introducing a slight clockwise tilt when depressing the shutter.

If pressing the shutter release button is causing the camera to tilt down on the side of the button, the solution is probably to grip the body of the camera tighter with right-hand fingers that are not pushing the button.

In other words, don't push down on the camera in a way that can move it. Instead, squeeze the button down with the rest of the right hand providing the force against which the finger squeezes (by holding the camera tightly).

oops, seems so logical to me now.
I'll do some test based on your answers and sure take care of my handling and button pushing in the future.
Thanks a lot everyone four your support.

engo wrote in post #4044657
oops, seems so logical to me now.
I'll do some test based on your answers and sure take care of my handling and button pushing in the future.
Thanks a lot everyone four your support.

Its not uncommon for the sensor to be a little bit off of perfectly horizontal. It could be that, coupled with the little bit you may stand off center ( and not realize it ) producing tilted shots.