How does the M6 sound when you advance the film? -T On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> At lest according to this guy's testing: >> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103766 > > Someone at the camera shop happened to be there with a K5 when I was > there with the Olympus E-1 and they had an M6 and an M8 on display. So > I got to hear all three next to one another. > > Jury's out on absolute volume ... My ear is not a decibel meter! ... > but all four are very quiet and have a very nice quality sound too. I > think the M6 with film in it is subjectively a hair quieter than the > other three, as someone mentioned in the thread you pointed to, but > all of them are quiet enough that most people will hardly notice in > any normal room's ambient noise. The M8 (vertical travel metal > shutter) has a slightly more metallic click than the M6 (horizontal > travel rubberized cloth shutter). The E-1 and K5 both have a vertical > travel metal shutter and both have a very restrained click, the E-1 > seems just slightly softer on the mirror return noise. > > But they're all very quiet cameras, the E-1 and K5 particularly so for > being SLRs. > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.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. >
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