Tiny but precise stick on levels for levelling the standards?

[l2oBiN]

Looking for a tint bubble level or other type of level that I can stick to the horizontal and vertical axis of the standards. Does anyone know where I could get some (preferably an ebay seller)?

[l2oBiN]

perhaps this would be cool as well..anyone selling it on ebay?

http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/14/six-in-one-card-level/

[Drew Wiley]

Don't expect anything like that to be particularly level. First, the surface you mount it
to would have to be perfectly flat and also true relative to your groundglass. You'd
have to precisely bed it in epoxy in such a manner that it remained true when set up.
Tape won't do it. And it would have to be a decent miniature level. I don't know anyone who makes something like this except Starrett or Stabila. Expect to pay 25
to 40 bucks. Not bad, but more money than any cheapo line level or keychain "level"
in acrylic. (Most on-board view camera levels aren't all that level either, if you check
them with a quality standard.)

[Bob Salomon]

Kaiser makes them.

[Lachlan 717]

Try looking up stick-on Bullseye levels.

Or carry a small Torpedo level with your kit.

[Leigh]

McMaster-Carr at www.mcmaster.com has a large selection of small levels in both bulls-eye and tubular styles.

And they list the accuracy of each. They're only $2 to $3 each, so buy several different ones and see which you prefer.

- Leigh

[Frank Petronio]

The longer-larger the level, the more accurate it is. So these little camera levels are only good to with a couple of degrees at best.

You are better off with a good independent level that will fit within the confines of the ground glass and the rim of your lens, the only two planes that really matter.

http://www.starrett.com/download/338_p439_444.pdf

[Lachlan 717]

http://www.starrett.com/download/338_p439_444.pdf

Some really cool stuff here, Frank!

[Leigh]

So these little camera levels are only good to with a couple of degrees at best.

Sorry, Frank. Absolutely untrue.

Some of the little bulls-eye levels are accurate to 0.035"/foot (10 arc minutes).

The little tubular acrylics are accurate to under 1/2 degree for less than $3.

If you want real accuracy you get the Starret 199Z, rated at 0.0005"/foot.
It's the industry standard for precision levels, but it costs $750.00.
I have two of them.

- Leigh

[falth j]

I too, for years have tried to find ways to keep my level and perpendicular but not with much success, until I was able to incorporate a large lake as a reference level body...

I bought one of those gps satellite survey systems, a precision kinetic satellite surveying system designed and implemented using a Global Positioning System (GPS).

A receiver is interfaced to a real-time kinetic (RTK) base station to achieve high precision centimeter scale positioning capability.

The receiver system is connected to a laptop personal computer where GPS receiver coordinates are captured and stored with the appropriate ExpertGPS software. The GPS data is layered on top of a GIS map with geospatial features.

Everything was working fine until the recent Japanese earthquake which threw the earth position off slightly altering rotational speed, and now I find that the lake has tipped and there is more water bunched up at one end of the lake changing lake levels, and thus affecting the levelness of my camera for which I have an algorithm to counter these recent changes, and once again I’m able to achieve a certain degree of levelness.

When my wife is with me, she generally eyeballs everything, and it works out pretty good, and she gripes that having too much technology isn’t always a good thing…