RE: [Leica] Is the issue of camera noise over-rated? - Talk amongst yourselves...:-)

["bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Hi, Tina - A belated welcome back!

I'll bet that if you sat in the corner quietly shooting with the R for a
couple hours that, too, would be ignored - because people would get used
to it. 

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Tina
Manley
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 6:06 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Is the issue of camera noise over-rated? - Talk
amongst yourselves...:-)


At 10:40 AM 1/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>First, cameras, and the noise they generate, is ubiquitous - everyone 
>owns a P&S and they all make noise; those noises are part of the 
>background music of all important life occasions, as, for that matter, 
>are flashes going off;

This also depends on the culture you where you are.  In the adobe houses
in 
rural Honduras and Guatemala, they are not used to mechanical 
sounds.  Chickens, roosters, dogs and pigs go unnoticed, but the slap of

the SLR mirror attracts everyone's attention.  I've only used R's, M's
and 
Digiluxes.  The R's attract by far the most attention with everyone 
stopping what they are doing to see what I'm photographing now.  The
M's, 
if you time the shutter release for when a rooster is crowing (not hard
to 
do!), goes unnoticed.  The digital is the quietest of all, but I have to

turn off the screen which attracts even more attention than the SLR
mirror 
slap.  If I sit quietly in the corner with my M7, I'm usually ignored
after 
the first couple of hours.

Tina 


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