Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M sound levels (was M4-P opinions)
From: ksherman <ksherman@cottenmusic.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:05:56 +0000

b.d.
i PROMISE my m-4p is quieter than my m6.  i'll record them if you need
proof <G>.
kim

At 02:18 PM 3/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
>FSilberman@aol.com
>Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 12:47 PM
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>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
>