Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/06

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Subject: [Leica] should cameras with silent shutters be outlawed?
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:17:23 -0400
 
> Proposed legislation would require that cell phone cameras make a noise to
> alert victims they're being photographed:
> 
> http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6750825&page=1
> 
> it's still in committee:
> 
> http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h414/show
> 
> I think it's been the wish of many Leica photographers that they could be
> silent and invisible. Technology steps up to the plate, the world changes.
> 
> 

But you can have your choice of sound sample of real camera going off.
One of those choices being the sweat sound of a silk Barnack shutter.
So you'd be ok.


Mark William Rabiner
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