Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:01 AM -0700 4/26/05, Ted Grant wrote:
>
>Mikiro san,
>I've used M cameras of various models for 40 years or near that in
>work as a professional photojournalist and at the moment I use 3
>M7's and an old M6 and I've never related to the sound they made
>until I joined the LUG. Neither did I have any hassle about the
>viewfinder flare that also seemed to be a great bother to others.
>Just move your eye slightly and it's gone!
>
>My job day in and day out was doing documentary assignments, so I
>never had the time to fondle and click the camera's because they're
>merely tools and not some expensive bauble in my hands.
>
>Over the past half dozen years on the LUG this noise topic has
>raised it's supposedly ugly head many times and it's still a
>non-issue with me where ever I shoot. Simply because I'm too busy
>concentrating on the picture taking and not some little click that
>we hear because the camera is close to our ear as we shoot. But
>rarely do others hear if they're engaged in something useful
>
>However, given there's a whole new breed of "clicker-clatter" users
>on board these days I thought maybe some one might like to waste
>their time, get a noise meter, go to a church bang off a bunch of
>clicks and measure the sound. Then tell us how good or bad it is!
>
>In that way we could save a bunch of time reading all this whining
>and comparing noise to noise and use the time to much better use
>taking pictures!
>
>Do you not agree?
>
>ted
Eh? let me turn on my bionic ear! ;-) ;-)
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