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Step 4Finishing your Light Up Camera Level
In this step we will be finishing the camera level into a working state.
-place your new level under your camera and measure where the hole needs to be drilled to allow for your tripod screw to come through. Make sure you get this right since this can be very hard to undo.
-Drill the hole for the tripod mount
-Place the spirit level tubes back into the holders
Now you have a DIY light up camera level… but wait it is ugly…
Ok this step is completely up to you and how you do it, but for reference this is how I cleaned up my level so at least it wasn’t horrible to look at.
-take out the spirit tubes from the level holders
-use mighty muddy to fill in the gaps and hard edges in the level without blocking the view of the level. Mighty Putty is an epoxy putty which you can drill, cut, and sand making it an easy tool for finishing.
-once the putty has dried sand it smooth, and clean the surface free of dust
-spray paint the level making sure you not to paint over the holes where the led light is showing through
-once dry place felt stickers on the base to make sure it can’t scratch up your camera
-place the spirit tubes back into the holders
You now have a finished light up camera level, so get out and shoot some photos!
You can view all of the high res photos for this instructable in this flickr tagset:
www.flickr.com/photos/zomie/tags/cameralevel/
-place your new level under your camera and measure where the hole needs to be drilled to allow for your tripod screw to come through. Make sure you get this right since this can be very hard to undo.
-Drill the hole for the tripod mount
-Place the spirit level tubes back into the holders
Now you have a DIY light up camera level… but wait it is ugly…
Ok this step is completely up to you and how you do it, but for reference this is how I cleaned up my level so at least it wasn’t horrible to look at.
-take out the spirit tubes from the level holders
-use mighty muddy to fill in the gaps and hard edges in the level without blocking the view of the level. Mighty Putty is an epoxy putty which you can drill, cut, and sand making it an easy tool for finishing.
-once the putty has dried sand it smooth, and clean the surface free of dust
-spray paint the level making sure you not to paint over the holes where the led light is showing through
-once dry place felt stickers on the base to make sure it can’t scratch up your camera
-place the spirit tubes back into the holders
You now have a finished light up camera level, so get out and shoot some photos!
You can view all of the high res photos for this instructable in this flickr tagset:
www.flickr.com/photos/zomie/tags/cameralevel/
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