RE: [Leica] M sound levels (was M4-P opinions)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

I may well be crazy - but then I suspect that everyone on this list is to
one degree or another :-) - but let me make the following suggestion:

Get a tape recorder. Take the recorder and your M4-P and M6, into a closet,
or some other totally quiet environment. With the mike the same distance
from each camera, record the sounds of the shutters at various speeds, but
record the sounds of the M4-P on one unlabeled tape cassette with a tiny
piece of black tape on the bottom side, and the M6 on another, identical,
cassette, with a piece of white tape on the bottom side. Shuffle the
cassettes. Listen to the sounds.

I'll bet they're the same, or so damn close that you're the only person who
could possibly tell them apart. :-)
B. D.

Shuffle the cassette



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Subject: Re: [Leica] M sound levels (was M4-P opinions)



In a message dated 3/7/99 4:15:35 AM, Ben T wrote:

<<I had an M4-P and an M6HM.   The click of the shutter was noticeably
louder
on
my M4-P than on my M6HM.  I don't know if this is the general case with
M4-Ps.
Ben>>

Interesting that you mention this. I was shooting recently (& wanted a quiet
camera) & noticed my M2 was significantly louder than my M6. It felt
intrusively loud vs. the M6. I was very surprised. Have any of you
encountered
this noise anomaly, or is this normal with the older M's.

Frederic