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Originally Posted by chris_tribble
Ed - really depressed if this is true... I SO want the M8 to be quieter... The shutter noise is fine - it's just the re-cocking that gets through to people. Not a real decibel issue, just the extension and complexity of the noise draws their attention...
I'm still crossing my fingers - hope you're not right!
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Chris--when I heard the 1d3 in "silent mode" at WPPI, it was silent for a dSLR, but not as quiet as the M8 by half.
Maybe they hadn't fixed it quite yet, though. Dunno--I was impressed, but again, it's all relative. The DMR is the most quiet I know of with manual wind.
And for people reading this, from 5 or 6 feet away, the difference in sound between an M6 and M8 is negligible--up close to your ear it's like night and day, because the buzz of the shutter seems to go through your bones, or something. LOL!!
All I know is I did this test with my M6 and the difference really wasn't that great from shooting distance, unless we're talking very close up.
As for that well-known PJ, I would have asked him what his M6 sounds like at 1/8000 s
) LOL!!!