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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.

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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
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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.

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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.

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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.
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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

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"...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.

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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!
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