you know M8 shutter is loud when..

[usccharles]

when i try to take a picture of my dog sleeping and he jerks up awake at the sound of the shutter...

he was so startled, i felt so bad.

RD-1, 20D, 5D, R6.2, Rollei 35, Hexar RF, Lomo, M6TTL, never has any of the other cameras that have gone through my hands ever given my dog a rude awakening. but the M8 sure does... he glares at me in a not-so-happy way everytime i pick up that camera. -_-

 

[etrigan63]

What kind of dog?

 

[Thardy]

Probably just a light sleeper.

 

[TS ISAAC]

Great watch dog! Be proud.

 

[Todd Frederick]

One reason I don't sell my Olympus E-1 is when I take a photo of my dog he keeps sleeping! ;>) Incredibly silent shutter and beautiful images.

 

[Keith]

when i try to take a picture of my dog sleeping and he jerks up awake at the sound of the shutter...QUOTE]

you know M8 shutter is loud when..

... your mum yells out "Do you have to slam that door like that?"

Sorry ... I couldn't resist 'cause they are loud ... well mine is! 😛

 

[usccharles]

What kind of dog?

he's a lab. and that's not him sleeping either. thats him trying to ignore me. because i just woke him up 😱

 

[jaapv]

but the M8 sure does... he glares at me in a not-so-happy way everytime i pick up that camera. -_-

That is exactly what my wife does - she found the original sales receipt.....

 

[usccharles]

That is exactly what my wife does - she found the original sales receipt.....

puhahahaha!😛

 

[Ben Z]

Neither of our dogs wake up at the sound of the M8, or a Nikon F for that matter. I can open the fridge and bang glass dishes around and they will probably open their eyes but not lift their heads. If I just touch the package of cheese, they're both sitting at my feet staring up.

I don't find the M8 any noisier than a Contax G2 or a Konica Hexar RF. Nothing a well-timed cough or throat-clear can't cover. Fire an M4 in dead silence and it is quite audible, more so if the place is made to transfer un-amplified sound, like the front row of a church. A Rollei is much quieter and people don't think you're shooting if the camera isn't up at your eye. The compact digitals, with the fake shutter sound turned off, are as close to really silent as you can get.

 

[tedwhite]

Silent? You want silent? Try the Yashica GSN... (apologies as this is a Leica thread)

 

[hofrench@mac.co]

I'll second that on the GSN. A great camera and almost completely silent.
My Rolleiflex, too.

 

[tedwhite]

I've got both. They seem equally silent.

 

[dougdarter]

Hi,

What everyone seems to forget, is that the shutter sound is also the sound of the shutter re-cocking.

I've listened to both my Barnacks, and my M6, and objectively, if you listen to the sound of the wind on, the M8 doesn't sound too bad at all.

 

[PetarDima]

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't take part in discussion, but I can't , simply I can't, understood that point of view. Yes, I didn't have that pleasure to even hold
Leica M in my hands ... it's a dream, obsession maybe.
When I saw a brochure about Leica MP in PDF on Leica site ... I realised one thing:
For 50 years, Leica M system was ''quiet enuff'' to work in ''sensitive situations ''.
Leica M8 is an end of that story - and on the other side, I can't look at that camera without use of wide lenses ... only with full frame job will be finished.

 

[shadowfox]

I've got both. They seem equally silent.

Please add to the list of silent ones: Olympus XA, Yashica Mat 124, Kiev 4A, MF Folders.

 

[Ben Z]

Sorry, maybe I shouldn't take part in discussion, but I can't , simply I can't, understood that point of view. Yes, I didn't have that pleasure to even hold
Leica M in my hands ... it's a dream, obsession maybe.
When I saw a brochure about Leica MP in PDF on Leica site ... I realised one thing:
For 50 years, Leica M system was ''quiet enuff'' to work in ''sensitive situations ''.
Leica M8 is an end of that story - and on the other side, I can't look at that camera without use of wide lenses ... only with full frame job will be finished.

The noise and the crop factor make excellent excuses not to buy an M8, but don't hold up very well when actually using an M8.

With a lens (and at worst a half-case) mounted, the noise is no more startling than a film M body, especially at slow speeds where the film bodies make little buzzing and rattling sounds, and definitely not when a motor winder is attached (the only true comparison since that's what actually makes most of the sound on an M8). That said, I think if it's possible in firmware, Leica ought to provide an option for the shutter recocking take place when you let go of the shutter button. Or perhaps assign it to one of the buttons on the back. That way you could take at least one shot with just the (very quiet) tick of the shutter itself, then put the camera under a jacket and let it recock.

As to the crop factor, a 12mm C/V lens has the effective coverage of an 18mm lens on a 24x36 frame. Moreover, unlike a crop SLR where the viewfinder is also cropped smaller, you don't really notice from the M8 or the accessory finders that there's a crop factor. For example, with my 15mm C/V lens that gives me a 21mm-effective angle, I use the same Leica 21mm viewfinder I use with a 21mm lens on my M6. And I was pleasantly surprized that the 1.3 crop doesn't affect the effective depth-of-field as much as my 1.6 crop Canon 20D. In fact my 50 Summilux, which by coverage angle is equivalent to a 75 Summilux on an M6, has just enough more DOF @ f/1.4 that I don't get the frequent mis-focusing I did when I owned a 75 Lux.

 

[The Fondler]

If any of you has ever shot one of the solid M7 Titanium bodies, then you will know the quietest shutter of them all! *th-* I think the titanium dampens the sound quite a bit. Very nice dog, by the way. Must be good for petting, etc.