On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Robinson >> > >> > 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! >> > > Since a digital SLR doesn't really have a natural sound of its own the way a > film SLR does, it has to be silent or invented. If you're going to invent it > then almost any sound will do, like mobile phone ringtones. But putting in > the sound of a farting badger, or a group of medieval nights going "Ni!" > would be silly. It makes sense to have it sound like the thing it replaced, > just as people still use the effect of a needle scratching a vinyl disk for > sound coming to a sudden crash, even though most people under about 40 may > never have used a vinyl record player, and may not even know what the sound > originally signified.
Bob, I assume you meant that digital point&shoots don't have an intrinsic sound. dSLRs all have a very audible signature from the shutter and mirror. Yes, even the K-5. :-) -- -bmw -- 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.
