Nice shots! They really give a sense of the energy of the place.
Sailor Ted said:
As a side after just three days the camera developed a vertical alignment issue and will need to be fixed when I return home. Please if anyone has advise on how to do the vertical alignment on an R-D1s (read "s") please let me know.'
If you got a warranty with your camera, then I would suggest dealing with it that way; if nothing else, it helps remind Epson that there is a demand for servicing on these cameras!
Still, if you later want to do it yourself... The best information we've been able to gather here on RFF is that the R-D1s is mechanically identical to the R-D1; the only difference is that the R-D1s came with updated firmware, which had to be applied to the R-D1 as a software update.
So, the instructions you've seen on RFF should apply to your camera. tmessenger's post was especially good in terms of identifying which screws do what adjustments. He did his by removing the top cover, though, which shouldn't be necessary for a simple vertical alignment. There's an older post in the R-D 1 forum which explains how to remove the accessory shoe and access the adjustments from there. The only thing that's a bit tricky about doing it that way is that the screw you need to turn is slightly under the edge of the opening under the accessory shoe, so you have to put your screwdriver at a slight angle to reach it.
Still, going through the shoe is a pretty safe way of doing it -- if you use soft tools such as toothpicks to remove the shoe's cover spring, there's very little risk of marring the camera, and if you remove the shoe and find that what you see inside doesn't match up with what you've read in the posts, then you just put the shoe back on and no harm done.
