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Examining level and grid display

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Examining level and grid display

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The lynda.com crew works really hard on getting the details right in these movies, so I don't want you to blame them for the fact that the camera is a little bit crooked right now. I put it that way on purpose, because the 5D Mark III has this really cool level feature, which I am now going to use to straighten the camera out. You saw the Info button in the last movie. If I press it once, I get this screen, which gives me some camera status info. If I press it again, I get my level. Now, this is actually a two axis level. It's showing me whether I am level this way; it's also showing me if my tilt is correct. So let's just address both of these. This line, this horizontal line, if the camera is level, will be green. So the fact that it's red shows me that things are off. In this particular instance, you can see the camera is unlevel, because you've got the reference lines of the frame here. But out in the wild, it can be a little harder to tell, so it's really nice that it's…

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