The ME Super actually has a pneumatic cylinder and piston
to return the mirror gently. It also has a spring loaded
stop to catch the mirror on it's return.
VERY advanced features for a camera in its price class.
These two things are the reason for the difference in sound
between the MES and the
--- Andre Langevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ME Super actually has a pneumatic cylinder and piston
to return the mirror gently. It also has a spring loaded
stop to catch the mirror on it's return.
VERY advanced features for a camera in its price class.
These two things are the reason for
My Super Program makes a very distinctive kerchunk! sound when the
shutter fires. This contrasts to the muted click noise that the ME
super makes. A stealth camera the Super Program is not...
-Mat
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:59:29 -0500, Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that, in the original
' cameras ever made.
I still have, and use, 3 of them. Probably keep using them
till film goes away for good.
Don
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From: Mat Maessen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:26 PM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Quietest Pentax
My Super
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To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: Quietest Pentax
My Super Program makes a very distinctive kerchunk! sound when the
shutter fires. This contrasts to the muted click noise that the ME
super makes. A stealth camera the Super
While photographing a Church production from the balcony with a K1000, my
wife who was at the far other side in another balcony said that my K1000 was
very distinctly audible even way across the sanctuary. I never heard the
DigiRebel which she was using. Nobody seemed to complain, but the
-
From: Brian Dunn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 3:55 AM
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Quietest Pentax
While photographing a Church production from the balcony with a
K1000, my wife who was at the far other side in another balcony
said that my K1000
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:29:09 -0600, Don Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The ist-D sound has been compared to a Hamster Sneeze,
that's about right, very quiet.
If you want quiet on the cheap the ME Super is one of the
quietest Manual Focus, Manual Wind bodies Pentax ever made.
It has
frank theriault wrote:
Of my mechanical Pentaxes, the MX is relatively quiet. My
LX, in comparision is like an elephant in high heels walking
down a deserted hallway with no carpet (that is to say, LOUD).
My Leica CL is pretty damned quiet, much more so that any SLR. But,
my quiet
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:05:03 -, Malcolm Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How quite is the Leica *exactly*? Are we talking fox in carpet slippers
here?
I'd say so. vbg
cheers,
frank
--
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
Frank wrote:
shutter barely makes a whisper. Even quieter is my Yashica
Mat, but maybe that's because the body's farther from my ear
when I shoot.
cheers,
frank
When I use my Yashica Mat 124G once in a while I always think there is
something wrong with the shutter not realizing it is
- Original Message -
From: Brian Dunn
Subject: Quietest Pentax
While photographing a Church production from the balcony with a K1000, my
wife who was at the far other side in another balcony said that my K1000
was very distinctly audible even way across the sanctuary. I never heard
I use my Leica IIIf to photograph things like piano recitals. It's very
quiet. It has a focal plane shutter, but it's well lubed and of course
it has no mirror.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2188979size=lg
On Mar 25, 2005, at 8:11 AM, frank theriault wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005
Unfortunately, you still have to deal with the wonderful mechanical
noises when winding on the film. Both of my Yashica Mats are very
noisy in that aspect.
My Canonet on the other hand...
-Mat
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:12:18 +0100, Henk Terhell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank wrote:
shutter
Do I really want one of the models with a mirror with shock absorbers?
My dedicated church camera body is an ME Super. Easily my quietest SLR.
Mirror-dampening design. Solid construction, quite sturdy. AE Auto and
Manual modes. (In fact, if the ME S did TTL flash, I'd prefer it to the
Super
MS How quite is the Leica *exactly*? Are we talking fox in carpet slippers
MS here?
Not that exactly, in my opinion.
It's noticeably g quieter than the MX or ME Super. That said, I
had both MX and MES and I liked the sound of MX more. YMMV, as both
have a different feel to the shutter sound.
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I use my Leica IIIf to photograph things like piano recitals. It's very
quiet. It has a focal plane shutter, but it's well lubed and of course
it has no mirror.
It also takes shortish FL lenses, but you did very well in that one:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
It also takes shortish FL lenses,
Err, I was meaning to ask rather than assert, but I am sure someone
will correct me here :-)
Kostas
William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The istD is very quiet, the ME Super is a very quiet camera and has the
added advantage of using film.
Of course there's always the option of using a point-and-shoot digital
:)
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
www.robertstech.com
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From: Mark Roberts
Subject: Re: Quietest Pentax
William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The istD is very quiet, the ME Super is a very quiet camera and has the
added advantage of using film.
Of course there's always the option of using a point-and-shoot digital
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From: Fred
Subject: Re: Quietest Pentax
Do I really want one of the models with a mirror with shock absorbers?
My dedicated church camera body is an ME Super. Easily my quietest SLR.
Mirror-dampening design. Solid construction, quite sturdy. AE Auto and
Manual
And if you need *really* quiet SLR, use a blimp. Photographers for
movies use them all the time. You can shoot a Nikon F4 at full
speed motor drive and nobody would hear it. Although probably shooting
with a 40x40cm big black box with lens port on one end and viewfinder
hole on the other hand
You're right. The longest lens that's practical on a Leica rangefinder
is a 135. You can use longer lenses with a Visoflex housing, which
mimics an SLR, but it's an unwieldy beast of a thing. The Leica is
happiest with wide to normal lenses, 35x and 50s. I have a Summicron
Collapsible f2.
Quoting frank theriault [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Of my mechanical Pentaxes, the MX is relatively quiet. My LX, in
comparision is like an elephant in high heels walking down a deserted
hallway with no carpet (that is to say, LOUD).
Oh, yes, in comparison with an M-series, the LX is on the loud
Do I really want one of the models with a mirror with shock absorbers?
My dedicated church camera body is an ME Super. Easily my quietest SLR.
Mirror-dampening design. Solid construction, quite sturdy. AE Auto and
Manual modes. (In fact, if the ME S did TTL flash, I'd prefer it to the
On 25 Mar 2005 at 15:03, Frantisek wrote:
MS How quite is the Leica *exactly*? Are we talking fox in carpet slippers
MS
here?
Not that exactly, in my opinion.
It's noticeably g quieter than the MX or ME Super. That said, I
had both MX and MES and I liked the sound of MX more. YMMV,
--- Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
none of which are quiet unless compared with my old P67 was so noisy
it could wake the dead. :-)
Was the P67 marketed as medical instrument?
Alan Chan
http://www.pbase.com/wlachan
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, yes, in comparison with an M-series, the LX is on the loud side.
But a K1000 is REALLY REALLY loud. I'm sure it's worse than the LX.
All the ZX bodies I've encountered have the hamster sneeze
that the *istD also has.
I compared my MX to Ken Archer's ME Super
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