LOL!!! You are just bored. ;-) I played the two sound recordings side by side. The Nikon D80 reminds me of nothing so much as my old Nikon FM+MD2 "gallop"ing sound ... a clacky-clattery but solid kind of noise maker. The Nikon F3/T+MD4 seemed a lot more "sophisticated". The Pentax K10D sound is more sing- song, softer and gentler.
So I went to a few other reviews. The EOS400D has a soft sounding clickety shutter. The A100 compared to the 350D sounds interesting ... the A100 has a nikon-like gallop, the EOS350D kind of strains and wheezes. The Leica M8 preview has an interesting comparison between the M7's soft cloth shutter "snick" and the M8's somewhat harder metal shutter "ca-click". The *ist DS sound includes comparisons to both the D70 and *ist D ... I'll just have to live with whatever sound the darn things make, eh? Perhaps we can orchestrate something with these sound bytes... :-) Godfrey On Sep 20, 2006, at 4:25 AM, J and K Messervy wrote: > Is it just me or is anyone else disappointed with the shutter > release sound > of the Pentax cameras? I know it isn't an important consideration > and I'd > never allow it to sway my decision on which camera to buy, but > after having > a look at the DPReview review of the D80 (just curious about the > competition > for the K10D) and the shutter release sound is so much better than > that of > the K10D. The K10D sounds the same as my DL and is very whirry. > > I can't see why they can't engineer a nicer sounding shutter. > > Maybe I'm just bored..... :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
