Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I agree with you on the quietness of an M7 shutter, yeah sometimes it seems >silent. > > As you know I click away with 3 of them at the same time and I'm always >conscious of any noise factor because I'm supposed to be the "invisible >photographer." ;-) There's no question M6 to M7 I believe the M7's are >quieter for whatever reason. Then again maybe my bionic ears are failing.. >;-) > >ted 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