On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:42:49AM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:41 , Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 2. Why do radio and TV ads depicting camera shutter presses still > > insert the sound effect for a film-era motor drive? Wake up you > > ad-creating doofuses!! It's not 1995. > > > > The sound-effect for most every digital camera (including cellphones) tends > to use this very same sound. > > I sorta "get it" as an effect on a small electronic box so you have positive > feedback that the image-taking has occurred. I DON'T 'get it' as a foley > effect for a non-film-era digital SLR being used on a show... then it's just > sloppy! > > -Charles
But my DSLRs do make a somewhat similar noise when I use them. It's only really the sound of the shutter being re-armed, and not a mechanical film advance, but it's the same kind of noise. Arguing that "they got it wrong" makes me sound like one of those sad anorak types who complain that the motorcycle noise on a film sound track obviously can't be from the bike being shown, because the tappet noise is far too loud for anything except a Norton (or that the plane on screen has Rolls Royce engines, but the sound is of a General Electrics turbofan). This just in - films & TV get a lot of small details wrong. -- 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.
