60d + t3i weird screen angle madness?

Hunter Hampton

Hunter Hampton

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Ok, what kind of camera designer would make a camera with an lcd screen that ISNT PARALLEL TO THE CAMERA WHEN FLIPPED OUT!? No other camera EVER has been like this I know of.

I just bought a t3i just because I thought it would be cool to have a canon body with a swivel lcd- but after shooting for 2 minutes and trying out the flip out lcd- my head feels like its on crooked and my neck hurts.

You either have to choose to point your camera strait and have a crooked lcd (tilt your head to the left side), or make your lcd strait and have a crooked camera. Just to make sure I wasnt loosing my mind, I went to the local camera store to try out another t3i as well as the 60d- and its the same.

I know this may seem weird and its not off by a huge angle, but its off enough for me to make it feel weird to frame and keep a parallel horizon line. Anyone else have this experience? Why have I not read anything about the screen being like this? Am I the only one?
 

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hunter richards said:
Ok, what kind of camera designer would make a camera with an lcd screen that ISNT PARALLEL TO THE CAMERA WHEN FLIPPED OUT!? No other camera EVER has been like this I know of.
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Cool, simple geometry. The LCD does not go parallel so therefore
when spun that results in the weird angle of the LCD. My T3i does
the same thing.
 
LOL-
Here's the thing tho... I think no one else noticed because if you want the LCD to be straight-on, wouldn't you just leave it in the camera body (ie. the way it is on all the non-articulating screens)?

The very concept of an articulating screen, IMO, is to be able to fold it out and move it into weird angles... tilted to the side for a strafe sort of movment, upwards for getting a floor/foot shot, downwards if mounted on an overhead rig, etc. I think they didn't anticipate someone would just fold it out to stay straight.
 
Of course you would do that, but for low angle I want it to be strait- for high angle I want it to be strait. Weird angles, well its ok to be weird for that.

If you look at every other dslr, video camera, ect- with a flip out screen- they all can be paralell to the camera either high angle or low angle- so this to me was just a odd thing to find out when my camera showed up. Not a big deal for most I guess- but very very strange from a design point of view as it makes absolutely no sense for them to do it this way.
 
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