The quietest shutter m42 body

[karlin]

Hello
I wander what m42 body has the quietest shutter sound.
I have Pentax SV and Spotmatic sp ii the sp ii is more quiet but as a rangefinder user I need a quieter sound as I tend to shoot in situations which demands it.

Ophir

 

[Swift1]

Hello
I wander what m42 body has the quietest shutter sound.
I have Pentax SV and Spotmatic sp ii the sp ii is more quiet but as a rangefinder user I need a quieter sound as I tend to shoot in situations which demands it.

Ophir

Interesting...
my first response to that question would be the Pentax SV.
Was your SV cla'd recently?

 

[littleearth]

I don't think you'll find anything quieter. Unless you use a different camera with the m42 adapter, like a Canon Elan II.

 

[Greyscale]

None of them are quiet. The models with the horizontal cloth shutters are moderately quieter than the ones with the square Copal metal shutters.

 

[johannielscom]

What Greyscale says. SLR's hardly ever are quiet, and the 1960s and 1970s SLR's weren't built to be quiet at all. That's one reason why photojournalists in those days used rangefinders alongside them (faster wide angle lenses being the other).
Ronald Reagan would not let any photographer shoot during his press conferences, unless they shot a rangefinder. True story.


My best advice, look for something with a central leaf shutter if you need a real quiet film camera. Konica Hexar AF for 135 film, or a medium format film camera like a Rolleiflex or a Fujifilm rangefinder in 6x9 or 6x4.5.
Or use a modern digital EVF camera, the Fujis and Sonys of today are quiet as a whisper.

 

[CameraQuest]

hands down, the best M42 film bodies to me

are the Canon T90 and Canon RT with M42 lens adapters
both ridiculously dirt cheap
both ridiculously great cameras

 

[Spanik]

The RT winder isn't that quiet but you gan set it to only wind after you let the shutterbutton go. But there is no mirror (apart from the very small AF mirror). Any MF with a central shutter is quiet, but the transport can be loud.

Or use a modern digital EVF camera, the Fujis and Sonys of today are quiet as a whisper.

I wouldn't call my nex3 or Pro1 quiet let alone "whisper quiet". Now the DPxm, those are quiet.

 

[nikon_sam]

My Nikon F is super quiet...Pentax MX has a distinct sound that in its self is quiet...neither are M42 but you already know that...

 

[oftheherd]

Between Minolta XG1. Pentax ME Super, Olympus OM 10 and OM G, all non-M42, Fujica ST 801, ST 901, and Pentax SV, which are all M42, I wish to tell you the Fujica ST 901 is the quietest. But I cannot. Quiet as it is, the Pentax SV is quieter.

 

[karlin]

Thank you gentleman.
its seems to each his own.

I already have leica , hexar af , so those are not relevant .
perhaps my sv needs a cla and I will try and find other m42 bodies as suggested here - Fujica .
The Nikon F I had was the loudest. the OM1 the quietest .

 

[jamin-b]

Agree on the SV, though I found the sound of the shutter on my Bessaflex quite reassuring,. The Fujica M42 series, while great camera, have a somewhat alarming metallic slap sound after the shutter is released, which i guess is what people call "mirror slap"...

 

[sevo]

The Contax D can be very quiet, if in perfect shape - having no return mirror, a high shutter trip delay and slow shutter travel (and slow flash sync speed). But many of them are missing the mirror damper, in which case they are very noisy. I guess the same goes for other early (and slow) SLRs - camera noise went up significantly by the seventies, when the motor FPS rate grew into the relevant number that made camera sales.