Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/12/05 4:23 PM, "Didier Ludwig" <rangefinder@screengang.com> typed: > >> I think that the quietness of the M shutter is much more a myth than a >> reality unless it's compared with an old pro reflex workhorse. > > Not shure, Luis. Even the newest Bessa R3a rangefinder camera is a little >snippet< My cute little unobtrusive Bessa L goes off like a Clapper! Makes me laugh out loud sometimes I'm not ready for it. Gotta wear earmuffs. Needs a muffler. I think those cameras which look like an Olympus E1 look like video cameras and that would be a different ballgame when you point it at somebody in the way they feel about it; when they feel they are being videoed that is. I can say myself I feel a bit different about someone clicking at me then them filming me in live action and sound. That's really being caught red handed. If I was into the Olympus system I'd certainly use that EVOLT body; for me it's the main reason d'tre for the whole system. Call it the major selling point at least. However from an obtrusiveness standpoint BD's pictures speak for themselves. So somebody doesn't mind being videoed. Or he edited out the ones of people flipping him the bird. Leicas used to be a lot quieter Than Nikon Fs or Canon F1's but I think the reason they were and are less obtrusive even before in the past few years the flagship cameras became welded to their motor drives and inflated by a bicycle pump is the fact that the lens does not have an automatic aperture opening and closing up front in your face. That diaphragm opening and closing is what people notice not the sound in my opinion. They think that's the shutter taking the picture. And maybe they think "I just had my picture taken. Do I like that? Did I have any say in the matter?" The cameras are all quite now anyway. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/