Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The rubberized silk shutters of the 1960's. Quiet, reliable, durable. So you couldn't sync at 1/125. On Jul 15, 2009, at 6:10 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Leicas were much quieter than SLR's before the 80s but around then all > cameras became much quieter and the beloved cloth shutter (which I > love > anyway) on the M's became less of an reason to want to use Leica > M's. Rebels > are pretty quiet cameras as are most the cheap DSLR's. > Quietness has been not that much of an issue in photography for a few > decades now. If it really ever was. > Its the pre flash going off several times like fireworks if you have > them > set wrong which much more is. And the little light helping you with > your > focusing if you don't have that turned off. > > And the fact that while everybody else in the situation is > photographing the > thing with the cell phones you are the only one using a real camrea > - which > is a real issue. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Richard Man <richard.lists at gmail.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:37:45 -0700 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] About discreet shooter and shooting discretely >> >> As a matter of fact, one of my current favorite photographers uses a >> Digital Rebel! Imagine that! :-) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information