[Leica] Re: quiet M7

[Summicron1 at aol.com (Summicron1@aol.com)]

First time I handled and fired an M7 I thought the thing was broken, it is 
SO 
quiet -- no mechanics and a cloth focal plane shutter equals VERY quiet 
indeed.

I have a 2.8 planar rolleiflex and I think the 3.5 models are much quieter 
because the shutter is smaller and you're throwing less metal around, but I 
think the M7 is about as quiet, if not more so. 

Possibly the quietest ccameras around is some of the older rangefinder 
cameras, such as a very early ricohs, which use a blade shutter like the 
Rollei. 
Some of those are near silent.

c trentelman
In a message dated 2/20/05 6:55:24 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org writes:


> 
> Some years ago the French magazine Chasseur d'Images run a test of the
> quieter camera ever built. They do not include -of course- any SLR.
> Using some sound laboratory gear the conclusion was the quieter camera
> built was a Konica Hexar -fixed lens- followed, shortly, by a M6. Both
> are in my arsenal but I do not agree. I thought the more silent camera
> is my Rolleiflex Planar 2.8. Right now I cannot confirm my impression as
> I have got severe audition problems, so practically I cannot hear none
> of them but my noisiest camera a Zenza Bronica S2A which sounds more or
> less like? "katacrochka..." every time is shooted. As here we use to say
> it awakes a dead man.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Felix
>