How much quieter is EOS 33 over EOS 50

maxim · May 14, 2007

Hi
I have the EOS 50 and has been shooting some church
ceremonies but wonder if i could get less noise
from a EOS 33 ?

what would be a mouse quiet camera ?
OM 3/4 ?

I need overall quiet operations not just in film
rewind..........

AgX · May 14, 2007

I've got the same problem with my T90.

An outcome would be a camera with (coupled) rangefinder and leaf shutter.

Sparky · May 14, 2007

get a blimp. they're cheap these days.

mcgrattan · May 14, 2007

Most rangefinders are pretty quiet, even the cloth shuttered focal plane ones.

My EOS 650 and my Pentax SFX -- both autowind, autofocus cameras -- are incredibly loud. On the other hand, I took a photo on the bus the other day with my Zorki 2C and the person sitting directly in front of me clearly didn't even hear it.

Paul Sorensen · May 14, 2007

If you don't want to go the route of a rangefinder, than one idea is to get rid of the auto wind business. I think that an OM 1 or 2 (or probably an OM 3 or 4, but I have never used one) or a Nikon FE or FM series camera will be a great deal quieter than the EOS cameras, but not as quiet as a rangefinder. The winding mechanism in Auto Focus cameras seems to be very loud compared to using your thumb.

mcgrattan · May 14, 2007

Yeah, my Pentax P50 is much quieter than the SFX although the mirror slap is still noisy compared to a leaf shutter or cloth focal plane shutter.

AgX · May 14, 2007

Sparky,

what kind of blimb do you mean? I only know those for cine-cameras.

Troy · May 14, 2007

AgX said:
Sparky,

what kind of blimb do you mean? I only know those for cine-cameras.

It's like a blow-up pillow that goes over the camera and muffles the sound. I've used them in court before.

Richard Kelham · May 14, 2007

Why not use a TLR Rolleiflex or similar. Very quiet and smaller than a blimp...slightly.

film_guy · May 15, 2007

If you're talking about the Elan 7 (EOS 33's name in North America), the shutter slap is slightly softer compared to the Elan II (EOS 50), although the film rewind transport's similar. The Elan 7 is one of Canon's quietest film SLR, and compared to my EOS 3, it's hardly audible in a church environment, while the EOS 3's loud "ke-clunk" can be heard from outside a closed-door room.

elekm · May 15, 2007

The Minolta XD11 seems to be a quiet camera -- at least for an SLR.

Not all rangefinders are quiet. The Voigtlander Prominent makes a lot of racket for a leaf-shutter rangefinder.

The Retina IIIS probably is the quietest camera that I own -- noticeably quieter than a Leica LTM or M. The Retina IIa also is quiet.

My Contax II (black dial) is very quiet when shooting at 1/50 and slower. A Rolleiflex TLR also is quiet.

My Werra makes a little "ping!" when the shutter is released.

With some manual cameras, there's a lot of noise emitted when the film is advanced -- a lot of clicking and ratcheting. And with motor-driven cameras, that's another issue altogether.

Sparky · May 15, 2007

AgX said:
Sparky,

what kind of blimb do you mean? I only know those for cine-cameras.

No - not the 'blow-up' kind as suggested by the other poster... they DO use these on film sets though.

this kind.
http://www.soundblimp.com/

AgX · May 16, 2007

Sparky,

Thank you for that interesting hint. That range of blimps employs a damping layer plus a stiff outer, what should make it the most effective concerning passive noise reduction (plus the fact that all openings are isolated too).

But (besides the fact that I don’t own an autofocus SLR) I’m a bit reluctant to control focussing, exposure and shutter just by one button.

Getting my Canon FD equipment silent somehow is on my projects list, but at the moment I spend my time posting at APUG…

film_guy · May 16, 2007

AgX,

If you own Canon's Elan series and above cameras (Elan 7, 3, 1-series), you can always reprogram the shutter button to only manage exposure, and the * button at the back for focusing using your thumb. It's more accurate than just trusting exposure and focusing on the shutter button. I think it's under custom function 4 - 1.

AgX · May 16, 2007

If you look at those blimps (casings would be more appropriate) Sparky referred to, you will see that the cameras are controlled by a button outside the casing.
Of course one could open the camera and rewire the whole thing...
But I'm quite old fashioned, even on a motion camera I prefer those real wheels for focussing to those rocker keys.

How much quieter is EOS 33 over EOS 50

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