On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > At lest according to this guy's testing: > http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103766
Someone at the camera shop happened to be there with a K5 when I was there with the Olympus E-1 and they had an M6 and an M8 on display. So I got to hear all three next to one another. Jury's out on absolute volume ... My ear is not a decibel meter! ... but all four are very quiet and have a very nice quality sound too. I think the M6 with film in it is subjectively a hair quieter than the other three, as someone mentioned in the thread you pointed to, but all of them are quiet enough that most people will hardly notice in any normal room's ambient noise. The M8 (vertical travel metal shutter) has a slightly more metallic click than the M6 (horizontal travel rubberized cloth shutter). The E-1 and K5 both have a vertical travel metal shutter and both have a very restrained click, the E-1 seems just slightly softer on the mirror return noise. But they're all very quiet cameras, the E-1 and K5 particularly so for being SLRs. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
