Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Well, Daniel - if you're using this as an excuse to buy a Leica, enjoy. > :-) > > But if you're really thinking of this in terms of your needs for what you > want to do, and you already have Canon lenses, one of the EOS's - could it > be the 7, but it may even be the three- is shockingly quiet. And for > street photography, almost any camera is "quiet enough" as the street > noise level will drown out the noise of the camera. > > B. D. > The quiet Canon SLRs are the EOS Elan 7 models (aka EOS 30/33), and previous Elan II (aka EOS 50), especially with a USM lens, really very quiet for SLRs. Probably not as quiet as an unmotorized Leica rangefinder, and certainly bulkier (more "visible").