----- Original Message ----- From: "Juey Chong Ong" Subject: Re: Good-bye Pentax
> > The question is: how much quieter is it? I find that I can't use AF on > my PZ1p in a concert hall because it's too noisy. Well, so's the > shutter mechanism but if I could get a quiet shutter mechanism and > quiet AF on a *ist-D, that would make it very attractive for me. It > could even be a quiet motor in the camera body. The Canon regular lenses are very quiet, the USM lenses are almost silent, unless you are a Rottweiler, in which case they seem to sound like fingernails scraping on a chalkboard. William Robb

