On 04/01/08, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed: > >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.
Th 1D series is the clack-clack type as well, with no wheeze. I have a neat trick though: there's a user pref that allows not only mirror lock up but also a time gap before the mirror drops back down after exposure. Viz: First trip of the shutter and the mirror bounces up. (Of course, the finder is now blacked out, so this only works well with shooting-from- the-hip or whatever you want to call it). Second trip of the shutter and the exposure is made - but if the finger is kept on the shutter release, the mirror stays up after the exposure, only bouncing back down after the finger is lifted off the shutter release. So, you get a 'clack.......click...........clack'. I assume one knows that a clack is louder than a simple little click :-) -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- 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.
