RE: [Leica] M sound levels

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

Just a word of advice, don't try this with a tape recorder that uses an
automatic recording level system, it will do its best to record both (all)
sounds at the same level.
You'll need a manual tape recorder, like our manual (M) cameras!

I'm sure that the noise levels vary more from specific camera to camera
(after many years) than they do from model to model.
It always surprised me that the Leica was cited as having such a quiet
shutter when Rolleiflexes and other compur shutter based cameras were around
for comparison. Perhaps that observation was only made after the advent of
SLRs.

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	B. D. Colen [SMTP:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
> 
> I may well be crazy - but then I suspect that everyone on this list is to
> one degree or another :-) - but let me make the following suggestion:
> 
> Get a tape recorder. Take the recorder and your M4-P and M6, into a
> closet,
> or some other totally quiet environment. With the mike the same distance
> from each camera, record the sounds of the shutters at various speeds, but
> record the sounds of the M4-P on one unlabeled tape cassette with a tiny
> piece of black tape on the bottom side, and the M6 on another, identical,
> cassette, with a piece of white tape on the bottom side. Shuffle the
> cassettes. Listen to the sounds.
> 
> I'll bet they're the same, or so damn close that you're the only person
> who
> could possibly tell them apart. :-)
> B. D.
> 
>