Quiet 645 camera

rowghani · Dec 21, 2015

Went to Walmart today and shit with my Fuji gs645 . Got plenty of looks as the camera has to be the loudest leaf shutter ever created. I don't mind too much but just curious if anybody has any other suggestions. Thought of the bronica Rf but show a clip on YouTube of it being fired and it had a very strange whizzing noise. Thoughts? 645 only please.

summicron1 · Dec 21, 2015

zeiss Super Ikonta A, very small/quiet compur blade shutter.

It's not the shutter, it's the mirror and stuff.

And are you now saying "...and shit" so everything you say sounds gangsta?

trythis · Dec 21, 2015

Oh dear....typos are sometimes better than the intentions

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Colin Corneau · Dec 21, 2015

To be fair, first word that comes to my mind when someone says WalMart.

rowghani · Dec 21, 2015

Lol just saw that. Awesome.

gone · Dec 21, 2015

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People will not only not hear the shutter, they probably won't even see the little bitty camera. Used to own one of those Fujis like yours and it was unnecessarily loud. They go "clack"! It's not the shutter itself, it's something else in there, and I was never able to figure out how to fix it. Other people have complained about it too.

The little Zeiss Ikonta I linked to works great w/ either the Novar or Tessar lenses, but the Tessars are razor sharp. My old lens was uncoated, and made sometime in the 30's. It was one of the best lenses I ever had, and made better pics than the Fuji. Really wonderful example of a minimalist MF folder.

j-dogg · Dec 21, 2015

I have never found anything worth shooting in a Tard-mart other than inductees into Peopleofwalmart.com

lxdude · Dec 21, 2015

rowghani said:
Went to Walmart today and shit with my Fuji gs645

I avoid their restrooms if at all possible.

LMNOP · Dec 21, 2015

I would love to see the shots from inside WalMart. You may be the only person to shoot a 6x45 Fuji Rangefinder inside of WalMart.

Dwayne Martin · Dec 21, 2015

This thread is a classic.....

rowghani · Dec 21, 2015

LMNOP said:
I would love to see the shots from inside WalMart. You may be the only person to shoot a 6x45 Fuji Rangefinder inside of WalMart.

Not sure if you're being serious or not but if you are thanks. I shoot a lot of slides inside malls and grocery stores.

rowghani · Dec 21, 2015

Devorobin said:
This thread is a classic.....

why is that man?

jimjm · Dec 21, 2015

Back to the OP's original question, you're not going to get much quieter than the leaf shutter in something like the Zeiss Super Ikonta. Of course, you're giving up in-camera metering, which may or may not slow you down.

I've no experience with the the Fujis, so I don't know if there are any quieter models made. I have the Bronica RF645, which exhibits the "wheezing" sound after every shot. I believe it's sound of the shutter charging for the next shot, but it's not significantly loud... not like a mirror flapping up and down, anyway. It is a great camera, though, with a good VF/RF, meter and nice control layout.

For silent shooting, I'd have to go with a 35mm camera like a Leica M2. Plus, you can use faster lenses like 35/1.4 for indoor shots.

mr rusty · Dec 22, 2015

The quietest and easiest camera I have to shoot unobtrusively is undoubtedly my Yashica TLR. Virtually silent and can be shot without lifting the camera up.

pdeeh · Dec 22, 2015

summicron1 said:
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It's not the shutter, it's the mirror and stuff.

there is no mirror and stuff in a GS645. it's a rangefinder with a leaf shutter.

Steve Smith · Dec 22, 2015

Just the stuff then!

Steve.

pdeeh · Dec 22, 2015

There must be an awful lot of that stuff in there, my GS645S used to go off like a small arm.
It actually was loud enough to frighten the horses (or, in my case, a couple of donkeys, as I recall)

film_man · Dec 22, 2015

It's not a 645 but the Mamiya 6 is very very quiet. Just a hushed click and that's it.

wombat2go · Dec 22, 2015

https://app.box.com/s/n10l5ud8n7oq4fczmzyq9fi0v0hcxbdt

Here is the sound of an RB67

Truzi · Dec 22, 2015

summicron1 said:
zeiss Super Ikonta A, very small/quiet compur blade shutter.

It's not the shutter, it's the mirror and stuff.

And are you now saying "...and shit" so everything you say sounds gangsta?

I don't know, the way it is written it seems more like what was done at the Walmart, with the camera as a companion.

I would think an SLR with mirror lockup might work, and just zone focus. My Bronica GS-1 has a very quiet shutter (the mirror, though, is not very quiet).

LMNOP · Dec 22, 2015

rowghani said:
Not sure if you're being serious or not but if you are thanks. I shoot a lot of slides inside malls and grocery stores.

Being totally serious. A lot of my work is indoors, I have an ongoing Mall project, I find that kind of thing fascinating. I haven't done walmart mostly because I prefer using a tripod and attracting less attention, but I wish I could. What kinds of subjects are you looking for?

agfarapid · Dec 22, 2015

Look for a Zenobia on e bay. Scale focus, tessar clone lens, roughly same size as the Zeiss but a bit more modern. Nice little shooter.

Alan Gales · Dec 22, 2015

Ya ought to shoot digital for that one. It's easier to post them on You Tube that way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLl7JBfnkvw

macfred · Dec 22, 2015

And God created man in his own image ...

More `People of Walmart´ http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2013/02/the-30-funniest-people-of-walmart-photos/18 :confused:

film_man · Dec 22, 2015

I really don't get all the smart@arse jokes and the negativity. I think a series of people shopping in a super market, Walmart or whatever, would be pretty cool, especially if shot with 6x7 or bigger. Such a formal setup would make it pretty neat. I mean Bruce Gilden makes a living photographing deadbeats and weirdos from 1 foot away so why not this?

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