On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Cotty wrote: >> The winder noise made certain you couldn't get >> more than one candid shot of me, thus proving my point. > > And a fascinating point it is. > > One thing that occurred to me shooting with the R-D1 is that the > shutter > sound is just a good old-fashioned click. No 'whir' at all.
Manual shutter re-tension in the RD-1 ... it goes click like any manual film advance film camera without a flipping mirror. > I found this *very* useful in the mosque, for instance. With a lot of > cameras, especially point-n-shoots but also some DSLRs, you get a > click > and then a very electronic 'whir'. This instantly alerts possible > subjects to the photographer's presence. With K10D and E-1 bodies, the only noticeable sound is the mirror clacking down and up again (with a manually focussed lens or the DA* lenses on the K10D). The K10D is a bit clattery sounding. The E-1 is quieter, sounds to me like a Contax RTS II body: a very smooth, snick- snick. With the L1 body, there is a noticeable wheeze after the mirror clacking down and making the exposure ... a slightly noisy shutter re-tension servo. The Fuji F30 makes a little servo noise prior to making the exposure but nothing afterwards. > ... Of course, if one engages the subjects then this is all > academic. But > for candid photography, I like a simple click. It's easier to hide ;-) You mean for "covert" photography. Candid does not require that you hide, it simply requires that you be unobtrusive. A small bit of shutter sound is not obtrusive in most circumstances, but I've been in circumstances where a Leica M's soft focal-plane-shutter 'click' was as obtrusive as a cannon going off too. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
