Buy a Leica. Juey Chong Ong wrote:
> I need some suggestions/solutions to reduce the shutter noise of the > *ist-D. > > I shot the Cleveland Orchestra concert at Carnegie Hall last week. I > used a blimp supplied by our handler. It's a heavy padded cloth draped > over the camera to reduce noise. I put my Polartec jacket over the > camera also. Two other photographers were using C****n gear and they > draped only their jackets over the camera. With this setup, the C***ns > were quiet enough that I did not hear the shutter unless I strained to > listen. > > At a break, one of the other shooters came up to me to let me know that > he could hear the shutter on my *ist-D. No one else came up to tell me > so perhaps he had very good ears and was concerned and wanted to let me > know. I don't think the audience was bothered and our handler didn't > come over to escort me out of the hall so I think it was within bounds. > > Still, I would like to try and reduce shutter noise further so that I > can shoot during some of the quieter music. > > Is there anything else I can do, short of putting the camera into some > unwieldy acoustic chamber? > > --jc
