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What is the best shutter sound on either digital or analogue cameras?? Over the years what has been the most significant in camera history?
My EOS 3 has a great solid sound when that fires off!!!
... The clatter from some SLRs is almost enough to wake the dead, especially some of the MF ones with IIRC the Pentax 645 sounding like a Lada door slamming and the window falling off its rails...
The first thing I did when I bought my latest camera was to switch off the shutter sound. Apart from anything else, it consumes power unecessarily.
I guess the whole point off having a shutter noise was to help in the transfer over from analogue to digital, it's the reassurance of something familiar. It's a little like the old electric fires, that had a flame effect- had no real use, other than to keep people happy.
It also reminds me about a story I heard, when Mazda were developing the first MX5 ( Miata), they engineered the sound of the exhaust so it sounded like an old 1960's British sports car.
Cunning stuff.
the big clunk of a hassy in the morning oh...yeh...
Olympus 35mm OM1, OM2 (and maybe OM3 OM4 - haven't listened to them). The Rolls Royce Merlin of the shutter world.
What? An over-engineered, over-priced aeronautical piece of motor-jewellery?
Rolls-Royce really saw the War Department coming with that one...lol
I spent a good number of years in Hong Kong and had a similar conversation with a friend over there, the first story I was told about the small Digi cams was there had to be a shutter sound as there were so many pervs trying to sneak upskirts on the MTR (tube)...
I nearly fell off my chair laughing