szekiat
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i have a cheaper option. Go look for a blimp. Used to use those for stage work and trust me, even boom mikes can't pick up an SLR in a blimp.
My M2 was too loud
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szekiat said:
LOL!
oh, you meant somthing like this:
http://www.robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-3408-3436
I was thinking this:
http://www.goodyearblimp.com/basics/camera.html
I was serious about the coughing though. Sounds stupid, but it works.
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WoolenMammoth
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szekiat said:
well, this is nonsense. I mixed production sound for feature films for just about a decade and in that time there wasnt a single set photographer that I permitted to shoot on set during takes. With a blimp you still will always hear the shutter: most shutter noise is actually transmitted directly down the barrel of the lens and while a blimp most certainly helps with the sound of any camera, it does %100 nothing to address the sound coming out the lens which has been, in my experience, way too loud to work on a stage during takes. A blimp is fantastic if you are shooting on a street or on a loud set, but its still not going to buy you silence on a soundstage and not by a long shot.
What would make a good blimp more effective (but still obviously cant address lens transmission) is lining the blimp with vinyl rated with a really high transmission loss coefficient. Of course this would add a bunch of weight to the blimp, but would also increase its effectiveness quite a bit. You definitely get into diminishing returns, however, as addressing the sound coming out of the lens is a tough fact to contend with. When we can hear the gate on a panavision camera, rest assured we are hearing the clunk of an slr no matter what.
giellaleafapmu
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Fabian said:
Leica M's are famous to be silent but I know of several cameras which are in fact much more silent. For istance the Hexar with silent mode is more silent and also the Olympus XA is. Maybe Leicas were the most silent cameras when they first appeared but they are not now.
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Rob-F
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Fabian: If you are going to make a habit of this, consider either: An M7; mine is definitely quieter than my mechanical Ms; or the Digilux II. With the beeps turned off, mine makes no sounds at all! There is no click at all during the exposure. Dead quiet.
FrankS
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giellaleafapmu said:
M Leicas are quiet (not silent) compared only to other focal plane shutter cameras. Most leaf shutter cameras are even quieter.
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