This is probably a stupid question, but are all those old film non-SLRs with leaf shutters as quiet as all the modern little digicams with leaf shutters?
the little digicams are quieter cause the rangefinders still have a mechanical switch.BasicallySLR's = kachakMechanical Rangefinders = ClickCompacts = (barely audible unless it's against your face) tick
Not quite because of the bigger leaves involved, but they'll still be a lot quieter than similarly sized focal plane shuttered cameras.Isn't the Mamiya 7 focal plane shuttered, though? I may be remembering wrong...
>>273844hold on let me check ken rockwell.
>>273849okay, no. it's a leaf shutter too. that's good, because they're quieter, more accurate and freer from sharpness-robbing vibration than the primitive cloth focal plane shutters of the smaller format Leicas.
>>273850How big is the Mamiya 7's leaf shutter?
>>273854why? each lens has its own
digi cam does not have leaf shutter.and hows thishttp://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=GRrpQxwjQ6o