BrianShaw
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Wow... what a wonderfully versatile country!Sparrow said:
mc_vancouver
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Back to quiet cameras: I like being able to take pictures in museums and galleries (when the guard is distracted). I really liked my Konica Hexar in its silent mode and bemoan selling it. You know, one thing that has always been very satisfying is the sound of a cloth-shutter Leica at 1/30th of a second or less. Now I don't know which Leica has the nicest, solidest, most satisfying sound, I'll have to leave that to those of you who have owned, or currently own, several, but of the few I have used, the M3 had a great shutter, with that little spring noise as it released. Oooh, baby.
ErnestoJL
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Thinking about noise, I have to say that my Contax II is extremely silent, almost as a new M6. The Kiev I own is also quiet (for Kiev standards).
I found that the particular noise of some leaf shutters (Copal SVE, loud and high frequency pitched-metallic-) is a nice way to get people staring at you when doing some street shooting, it is to point at you, one way or another. Other small leaf shutters perform better in terms of noise, but the average people will easy detect high frequency noises than low frequencies.
When shooting a wedding or a family gathering noise can be disturbing much more than if using an electronic flash.
In fact I like quiet cameras for the a/m reasons.
Ernesto
I found that the particular noise of some leaf shutters (Copal SVE, loud and high frequency pitched-metallic-) is a nice way to get people staring at you when doing some street shooting, it is to point at you, one way or another. Other small leaf shutters perform better in terms of noise, but the average people will easy detect high frequency noises than low frequencies.
When shooting a wedding or a family gathering noise can be disturbing much more than if using an electronic flash.
In fact I like quiet cameras for the a/m reasons.
Ernesto
mc_vancouver
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A thought and a question: why can't digital cameras have an electronic shutter that has no moving parts, but instead turns on/off the ccd or some other electronics to simulate various shutter speeds? For a totally silent camera.
Graham Line
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Stephanie Brim said:
My first M2 arrived when I had to take a lot of photos of public meetings; nothing was worse than having a couple dozen heads snap toward you when tripping the average early-70s slr.