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My Safari arrived a few weeks back but I was away for a long stretch so it sat silently awaiting my return; had second-guessed the sale of my truly wonderful M10 as I spent the last 2 months with an R9.

DAMN, is the shutter ever quiet!! Going from an M9M to an M10 was a revelation in subdued noise, but this is a leap beyond. 

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I was in Porto (northern Portugal) last October and spotted a Leica shop there. I went in and asked to see the M10-P. The very helpful staff brought out a demonstration piece and let me handle it. When I pressed the shutter it surprised me how quiet it was. I took out my M240-P and its shutter sounded really loud compared to the M10-P.

Earlier this year I saw an advertisement for an almost new M10-P and bought it at a huge discount compared with a new one. Then I sold my M240-P. 

What a lovely quiet camera!  

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I was on the brink of purchasing an M10 earlier in the year when the salesman in the Leica Store said: “I’d just like to show you one more thing”. He retrieved an M10-P from the display case and encouraged me to compare the sound of the M10-P’s shutter with that of the M10. Going with the M10-P was one of the easiest decisions I’ve ever made.

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15 minutes ago, Reciprocity said:

I'm now in the M10-P club, sold my M10. 

This thing is even quieter than either my M3 or M6, pretty amazing. 

Who is going to be bothered by shutter noise? Street environments overwhelm shutter sound. Even many indoor environments do the same. A person with his camera to his face would still evoke attention in a setting of hearing impaired senior citizens. What's the point?

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1 minute ago, pico said:

Who is going to be bothered by shutter noise? Street environments overwhelm shutter sound. Even many indoor environments do the same. A person with his camera to his face would still evoke attention in a setting of hearing impaired senior citizens. What's the point?

 

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31 minutes ago, pico said:

Who is going to be bothered by shutter noise? Street environments overwhelm shutter sound. Even many indoor environments do the same. A person with his camera to his face would still evoke attention in a setting of hearing impaired senior citizens. What's the point?

1. I am photographer in residence at an acclaimed classical music school, silence is desired, well timed very quiet operation is mandatory.

2. One of my main long time clients is an international organization that often convenes top cabinet level white house officials with global interests. These meetings are covered in documentary style and require as low key an approach as possible and that very much includes shutter noise. The M10 was just ok at this due to the sharp shutter noise, the M10-P is far better and a Nikon Z6 with a super sharp prime like the 50mm 1.8S in silent mode is fabulously perfect. 

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6 minutes ago, Reciprocity said:

1. I am photographer in residence at an acclaimed classical music school, silence is desired, well timed very quiet operation is mandatory.

2. One of my main long time clients is an international organization that often convenes top cabinet level white house officials with global interests. These meetings are covered in documentary style and require as low key an approach as possible and that very much includes shutter noise. The M10 was just ok at this due to the sharp shutter noise, the M10-P is far better and a Nikon Z6 with a super sharp prime like the 50mm 1.8S in silent mode is fabulously perfect. 

How on earth did they manage before "near silent or silent shutters"? 

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Just now, lykaman said:

How on earth did they manage before "near silent or silent shutters"? 

In the case of music, bulky sound blimps.

In the case of the high stakes meetings, far less good images made and or less time in the room. 

The deliverables I gave my clients this year in using near silent or totally silent cameras were quite a bump up over previous years. It's a *very* liberating thing when working in these genres.

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2 minutes ago, Reciprocity said:

In the case of music, bulky sound blimps.

In the case of the high stakes meetings, far less good images made and or less time in the room. 

The deliverables I gave my clients this year in using near silent or totally silent cameras were quite a bump up over previous years. It's a *very* liberating thing when working in these genres.

 

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For some reason I don't want a camera to be completely soundless. I need some kind of confirmation that I have pressed the shutter button. But it should be very subtle and discreet, so preferably only I can hear it. 

For a large part, I choose cameras based on tactile emotions. The shutter sound is part of this whole package.

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30 minutes ago, evikne said:

For some reason I don't want a camera to be completely soundless. I need some kind of confirmation that I have pressed the shutter button. But it should be very subtle and discreet, so preferably only I can hear it. 

Haptic feedback at the end of the exposure through the shutter release, or possibly  just a blink of a rear LCD might do the trick.

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