marc_bergman1 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 "SLRs are noisy regardless if film or digital. The same shutter covers either film or the chip. The motor drive is the same." What exactly does the 'motor drive' drive in a DSLR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbq Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Marc: cocks the shutter (assuming a mechanical focal-plane shutter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connmenvii Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Dayton, Good post. I don't understand why more photographers do not use point and shoot digital cameras. Quality wise it is good enough for publication. It is not the camera that makes the picture but the photographer. In a situation like the Reagan funeral what do you need a better shutter response for? There isn't much action. I am going to include a link that most of you have probably seen before. Alex Majoli, Magnum Photos, won NPPA Magazine POY with a point and shoot Olympus. http://www.apple.com/pro/photo/majoli/ I think as photographers we get too caught up in the equipment aspect of it. What does it matter what we take it with? One can make a million arguements why to shoot with a Leica over a Canon or a Canon over a Nikon or film over digital and vice versa but in the end it is just a tool. And as a painter doesn't have one brush, we shouldn't have one camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will_perlis Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 "...talk about deafening, grab a hold of my 1d mkII." Yup. That thing must be producing lots of high frequencies if my beat-to-hell ears can easily hear the difference between it and the 1v. At 8fps it sounds like a sewing machine to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dayton_p._strickland1 Posted June 10, 2004 Author Share Posted June 10, 2004 Thanks Andrew for the information. My "quiet" digital camera is the Olympus C-5050 and I use in situations where noise is a factor or when I need lots of depth of field. My quiet film cameras are an M-6ttl and an Olympus XA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek_stanton2 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 My loudest: Pentax 67. Followed by Hasselblad 203FE. Quietest: Leica CM, Rolleiflex TLR. With the CM, everyone (EVERYONE) challenges my claim that i actually did "take a picture." I guess they also expect a flash to go off.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_w. Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 The Hexar AF in silent mode is difficult to hear even when up to your eye. If not shooting at infinity, it is easier watching the framelines move to infinity after every shot than to try and listen to determine when the shutter fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricM Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 "...every moron can make his statement without consequences." at least this photogrpaher doesn't complain about camera noise. what would you look at in the paper the next day anyway butthead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal dimarco Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 First of all the Capitol Dome echoes sound. Secondly, there were ONLY one or two photographers on the floor and it looked like they were kept about 30 feet away. The majority of the photogs were on risers working with a minimum of a 300mm f/2.8 to a 600mm f/4 lenses. Any one limiting themselves to a Leica rangefinder with a 135mm is out of luck. In the meeting rooms on the Hill, photographers can only use their motors during the swearing-in of the witness, after that it's single punching. One must use an SLR for this assignment. Happy Snaps, Sal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskovacs Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Leica M sounds like a gun compared to a Rolleiflex... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_fang Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Sal is right, and the rest of you know diddly-squat about press photography. First, news is a business, shouldn't be any surprises there. Press is there to fulfill a demand, and this is apparently what's selling newspapers right now. Second, a professional newspaper photographer who brings nothing but an M Leica or a P&S digicam is either nuts or doesn't care about getting fired later that day. Every news situation is potentially a roped one, and if you're stuck 100 feet away from the goings-on, you'd better have at least a 80-200/2.8 handy if not a 300/2.8 or longer. Yes, a tool is a tool, <b>as long as it does what you need it to do and doesn't get in your way</b>. <p>Having said all this, my D70 is more muted than my F100 or FM2N. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_brown4 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Anyway, camera noise sounds cool, who cares? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Who is being annoyed by the noise? Not Reagan. Not the politicians, for to them the sound of a shutter is Mozart to their ears, as they crave publicity. Most of the other people (Mrs.Reagan, etc.) are used to this sound and have long since tuned it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 This was more offensive than camera shutter noise: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33272-2004Jun10.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob haight Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Marc, good point as to my comment about "motor drive" What I was referring to is the quick frame advance; that is so many frames per second, which sounds similar in both type cameras because what you basically hear is the shutter mechanism repeating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricks Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 gotta agree w/ Vic on this one. This is as much of a media event as a funeral so i don't many ppl care abut camera noise. Attending a Presidential morning in shorts/t-shirt/hat on the other hand is utterly disrespectful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen_persky Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Vic, You nailed it. There is so much hypocracy in today's media. It makes me sick. Shorts at a funeral:(. Scumbag politicians who only care about 10 secs of fame. I disagree with the media circus that accompanies these solemn occasions. I think the worse media circus was when Princess Diana died. They had announcers calling out every move like it was the Thanksgiving Day Parade. Regards, Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
will_perlis Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 "...Robert J. Dole (Kan.) agreed. Paying his respects in a dark suit and red tie, he acknowledged that times are different. ... He said that Reagan would have been pleased with the large turnout, whatever their wardrobe. "Here are the people who got him elected." Bob cut to the chase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom h. Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Peter A-lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gary_ferguson1 Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 I used to think Leica M's were quiet until I heard the blimped Nikons and Canons used by movie set photographers. Mind you, they're not the kind of blimps you can order from a photo superstore, but the custom blimps made by one or two LA specialists that cost more than the cameras inside. I've stood right next to a few of these cameras while using my own M6's and M7's and I felt like a problem neighbour by comparison! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted June 13, 2004 Share Posted June 13, 2004 Not as noisy as some columnists: http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybres113845462jun11,0,3452804.column?coll=ny-news-columnists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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