The evolution of the cell phone camera at pro golf events

Ten years ago: not allowed on the golf course, must be checked at entrance.

Followed by: you can carry it but don't even think about using it on the golf course and NO photos.

Then: OK you can use it as a phone provided you are discrete and NEVER when the marshals raise their arms for silence.

Then: OK for photos but only for practice rounds.

Now: Take all the photos you want any time, any day! Video ok too.

(rules may vary by tournament)

It is a tedious task, this regulation of the gathering of light.......

I’m still trying to figure out where the dial is on those darn things.

I can’t get the film out......

Some people have never learned how to turn the "squeegee" noise off when taking a photo with a phone. Another asked me if I could turn the sound off in my DSLR. Maybe the photo photographers know how to make them quiet, but feel better if they make a noise.

 

The dial? Hammers aren't adjustable either. You just have to find the right-sized nails.

Maybe the photo photographers know how to make them quiet, but feel better if they make a noise.

Certainly know how to shut off the shutter sound on every digital, and do on occasions when it is necessary. The rest of the time I like it, a common feature down all those decades of photography, and harms no one.

Maybe the photo photographers know how to make them quiet, but feel better if they make a noise.

What's a photo photographer, a guy who takes pictures of his pictures? lol - just giving you a hard time, in jest.

 

I'm with Sandy. I only go to silent mode when absolutely necessary. I like the clickety-click-click.

 

On one of the software upgrades to my iPad and iPhone, the upgrade automatically defaulted to silent mode for the keyboard. It drove me crazy not to hear the rap-tap-tap of the keys (virtual though those keys may be). What a relief when I figured out how to turn the sound for the keyboard back on!

Typing error, LOL.

 

Sandy, how do you turn off the sound of a DSLR? I could have used that bit of info before getting slammed by a conductor. On the other hand, I agree that a shutter sound is okay most of the time, and nearly mandatory when taking pictures of small groups and individuals. They need the sound to know when they can relax a bit, and reassurance that something actually happened.

There is a manual switch selector for quiet mode on the DF (my most used DSLR), menu selections for silent on my Ricoh GXRs and on the Leica D Lux - I have either forgot on the D 750 - have not used the feature in recent memory. The D7200 is relatively new to me, admit, without need, (Bugs don't care) don't know. Too late to check it out tonight, busy day tomorrow. At least in part, misspoke.

Many of the places I have been to long ago and then again more recently have become much more restrictive than they were earlier.

The exception is art museums, who given greater low-light camera capability, only restrict the use of flash and tripods. I practice "open carry" these days in US art museums. They are not, as a rule, happy about large bags that could hold something like a painting:rolleyes:

 

They can't keep cell phone cameras out, but they threaten floggings if you take a picture.

Edited September 29, 2018 by JDMvW

"Quiet Mode" in a DSLR is not the same as silent - far from it in fact. The mechanism may wind slower between shots, perhaps the mirror moves slower, but not all that quietly. When you turn off the beeps, chirps and squeegee sounds in a smart phone or digicam, the operation is completely silent.

 

It is a custom, out of respect to the players, to be silent during a golf match. Shutters tend to go off exactly when the player must concentrate the most. Even the announcers whisper, and they're too far away to matter. The closest I've been to a professional golf match was 1500 feet, in an airplane. Hopefully the steady beat of the engine had no effect on the play. Not my choice, though. Even I couldn't hear the shutter over the engine, with the door removed.

Electronic shutters will make a golf club in mid swing look like a wet noodle. I think I read somewhere Sony had solved this problem.