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Re: [OM] How Quiet is the OM-4T?

Subject: Re: [OM] How Quiet is the OM-4T?
From: "Skip Williams" <skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:08:08 -0500
OK, you forgot what's certainly the quietest camera ever made, the Olympus XA. THat little electromagnetic shutter release maks the barest click you can imagine.

A close second is a Konica Hexar (leaf shutter) in silent mode. You have to hear (or not hear) that camera to believe that it's working.

SKip


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From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [OM] How Quiet is the OM-4T?
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 00:28:03 +0000


Is the OM-4T as quiet as an OM-1?  I'm thinking of getting an OM-4T, but
I've never handled one, and I am worried that the shutter isn't as quiet
because they have revved it up to give 1/2000.   Anyone with both the OM-1
(or the Om-2) and the OM-4T have an opinion about their relative quietness?

To my uncalibrated ear, the OM-1n, OM-2S and OM-4 are about the same
loudness.  All three have distinctly different shutter sounds though.  The
OM-10 is noticeably louder (sold it a while ago).  The Yashica J-5 I owned
many years ago was noisier than any of the single-digit OM bodies.

By comparison, the quietest is a Rollei 35S with its leaf shutter.  Next is
a Contax IIIa RF (no mirror slap).  The mirror slap on the Mamiya M645
makes it clearly the noisiest camera I've owned.

Overall, the single-digit OM bodies are relatively quieter than any other
SLR with focal plane shutter that I've handled.

-- John


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