Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd love to know when shutter noise - not old-fashioned SLR clatter - but RF shutter noise, cost anyone on this list an important shot. Because I can tell you that it has NEVER cost me any shot at all. Yes, the M is wonderfully quite, and I like that fact. But there are many cameras that are wonderfully quite - (as I think I posted a while ago, when I fired off my M, and then my E-1 DSLR to demonstrate the M's quiet to my students, they all thought the M was "louder" than the DSLR. I think they're about the same, but the sounds are 'different.') Certainly the Rollei TLRs are quieter than the M. What matters in unobtrusive, stealth if you will, photography, is NOT the shutter noise, but how you handle the camera, and how you conduct yourself. If YOU are quiet and unobtrusive, and if you don't keep bouncing the camera up and down from your face, you can shoot with a shoulder mounted rocket launcher and no one will notice you. All of which is to say, the new Zeiss M body may or may not be any good, but the 'ohmygod' that shutter is noisier than an M is pretty meaningless. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Didier Ludwig Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 2:40 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] Re:Black ZI The ZI shutter might not only feel and sound like a Bessa shutter (never had a ZI in my hands), but it definitely looks exactly like the shutter of my Bessa L. I guess it IS the Bessa shutter. The Bessa L is significantly louder than a M6, but afaik, the Bessa R2 and and R3a shutters have been improved and make less noise. >The shutter isn't any louder then a Bessa. When I handled one this >summer >at a trade show it felt and sounded just like a Bessa. >Christopher Saganich >> http://www.screengang.com/deed/ZI/index.php?img=02 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information