Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i agree with all of the proceeding. i think that the discreet mode is still advantageous, but in a more subtle way than just db. i suspect that people become attuned to the click and motor advance because they form a recognizable and repeated pattern. when the sounds are randomly separated, the noise of the 2 actions is not so noticable. my wife and my sister are both notoriously (and in the latter case violently) hostile to photography and i haven't been threatened nearly so much since using discreet mode. -rei On Jul16 00:32, Steve Unsworth wrote: > Now that you are able to separate the shutter from the stuff that comes > afterwards you can hear that the loud bit is the shutter. The stuff > afterwards is nowhere near as loud. > > Steve > > > On 15/7/09 23:29, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > > The noise issues I was aware of and mentioned on the lug at the time on > > the > > occasions when I used the M8 was not the loudness of the shudder but the > > complexity and stuff which comes afterward which I'm not used to hearing > > nor > > expecting to hear; not that that was a big deal. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Rei Shinozuka shino at panix.com Ridgewood, New Jersey