ORIGINAL: BB_DF
... I'm not sure DFI took this into account when they designed the SAVS. ...
Oh yes, I spoke at length with them about these kinds of manual adjustments not being precise or easy enough. But any additional mechanics in the ball for auto leveling in any orientation adds weight and because it's suspended out there, that creates balance problems and on.. and on.. and on.
One thing to be careful of when rotating the entire camera arm is to remember that those small wires come out of that carbon fiber rod at a sharp 180 degrees at the edge of that rod inside that rubber fitting. If you twist that rod back and forth enough, the wires could eventually chafe, short out or be cut.