[Leica] Art of Noise...

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Daniel ROCHA offered:
Subject: RE: [Leica] Art of Noise...
>>>> - say a church, for instance, in quiet moments even a Leica M3 or M6
>> sounds like a canon shattering the silence, <<<<<<<

Daniel,
I assume Daniel, the above is your comment?

It's not so much the noise of the camera, it's learning when to shoot while 
the peripheral noise is higher. Noise from a Leica M is negligible even 
during a concert if you know the music being played and you trip the shutter 
when the loudest banging of the drums or blaring of the horns occur.

Outside on the street it's far more important to understand your own body 
language during shooting without being detected than "noise from a Leica."

Indoors if you are aware of noise in the area one can go about shooting with 
impunity. I mean even in an operating room during what we might call, " 
tense moments that sound silent" there's always enough "room" noise" to 
muffle a Leica M shutter going... "click!" Besides people concentrating on 
what's before them are not aware of most sounds due to the concentration in 
their work.

And one learns quickly after shooting in an OR for 6 hours or more to find 
out when it's over the surgeon says, "I didn't even know you were there with 
all those cameras!" :-)  Then you know they didn't hear any sound of a 
camera. :-)

Besides the photographer holding the camera to his/her eye is more aware of 
the sound than the audience or whomever is around at the time. Why? Well the 
camera is about as close as it can get to your ears when at your eye, you 
trip the shutter, therefore you are "listening for the shutter sound 
unconsciously" even though you are concentrating on your subject.

So if you're having thoughts of what to purchase, buy a leica M of some 
sort, get over the noise thing and go take pictures while having fun without 
any angst of noise. ;-)

ted