[Leica] Leica and leather

[grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)]

I also feel this is a problem only with the user. ?I have yet to have anyone 
look at me or make a comment on the sound from my M8. ?Over on the LUF there 
is a guy who swears that people on the streets of NY have given him dirty 
looks and made harsh remarks as to the noise from his M8. ?I have tried this 
on the streets of Chicago and not a single person heard or remarked about 
the camera noise. ?Even I could not hear it on the city streets. ?As for my 
experience in Europe, not a single person looked at me due to noise from the 
M8 in 3 months. ?Forget the 'noise problem' and buy the camera and enjoy 
using it.


Cheers,
Gene



 -------------- Original message from "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>: 
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> John Collier offered:
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> 
> >>The other day I was yet again trying out an M8 and I wondered if  
> 
> anyone has used an M8 with one of Luigi's half cases. My question is  
> 
> not if it drives the opposite sex into a frenzy of barely contained  
> 
> passion, no doubt a useful side effect, but whether it helps dampen  
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> the noise.
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>  
> 
> I distressed the camera sales person no end but waving the camera  
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> about while shooting -- even held it behind my back. The noise is  
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> really only objectionable to the shooter. Held away and its just fine.  
> 
> Short of waiting for my hearing to fail as my eyesight already has, I  
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> was hoping the half leather case might take the edge off a bit.<<<<<<<<<<
> 
>  
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I can't make any comment about leather, noise and lusting women. :-) But I,
> like you, believe the shutter-winder noise of the M8 is more bothersome to
> the photographer with it in hand, than subjects.
> 
>  
> 
> Besides we are more in tune with "listening for the noise" because it has
> been bitched about by many. Therefore it makes all of us more attentive to
> listening for it. or hearing it in an imaginary increased level. I recently
> used mine during a concert by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and if one
> wishes to live dangerously about noise with an M8 or any other "noise
> related" camera. This is a location you will be "nuked on the spot for a
> camera click!"
> 
>  
> 
> Shooting during a concert by an orchestra of this caliber where attendees
> have amazing hearing in relation to every tiny breath, not one person
> sitting around me said a word or gave me an annoying facial expression of 
> an
> unmentionable type, it would be very offending if spoken. :-) My wife was
> sitting beside me and before the concert began I tripped a few frames to 
> see
> what her reaction was for sound. 
> 
>  
> 
> Trust me this is a woman who has "RADAR HEARING ABILITIES!"  Her response?
> "Nope didn't hear a thing!" When I made the first exposure during play time
> I felt myself cringe as the shutter winder were doing their thing. Not a
> head turned nor did hair stand on the back of anyone's neck! Other than my
> own, as I expected heads to turn and fry me on the spot! :-)
> 
>  
> 
> My gut feeling is, far too many M8 shooters are overly concerned about the
> "so called noise factor" than subjects. So far I've not had a complaint 
> from
> anyone about noise accept photographers themselves.
> 
>  
> 
> Dr. ted  "An avid M8 user!" 
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