Quara.
For you see ...
First, most press conferences are held in a very live room that has been designed acoustically for maximum sound projection so that public speakers can be heard by everyone present.
The US Capitol's main open area allows visitors to whisper against the wall and have the sound travel around the circumference of the whole room.
The discussions about types of microphones and their placements and their purpose are irrelevant.
Secondly, the single lens reflex cameras used by nearly all photographers presently have mirrors on mechanical devices inside the camera that are used for the photographer to look through the viewfinder to look directly through the lens, that's what makes them so valuable, you see exactly what the image sensor sees, and the mirror must be moved out of the way before the shutter snaps open. Then back closed. Then the mirror returned to position. The shutters are usually like two thin window blinds that move downward in sequence with a space between them. They are moved back up when the shot is completed. So this is a lot of mechanics happening inside the camera.
Mechanics inside an electronic device.
New cameras designed without the mirror and its mechanism are a lot more quiet.
In the past, the most noise used to be the electric motor that advanced the film.
And it used to be the flash going off.
Sometimes present day flashes recharge. It sounds like ssspoofssss.
We photographer types abjure shooting with flash. Abjure; it's a w-o-o-o-r-d. Because on-camera flash is so flat. It's like POOF a giant light in your face. The frontal shadows are erased, and the shadows that are cast are sharp and harsh with the front features flooded out. Working with flash takes a lot of finesse with flashes set up around the subject and calibrated just so to make light pour around the subject and fill in the shadows behind the subject and balanced precisely. It's an art. And in pressroom situations there is no time for art. And the house lighting is generally fairly good and the camera's ability to operate at low light is outstanding. Even with various types of light, yellow to blue.
The following high speed images of shutters will show that the Canon camera's mirror mechanism is quite floppy. It vibrates all over the place. The mirror vibrates when put in both up and down positions, while the Nikon is tight. The sound is cut off but before it is, you can hear that the Canon is louder than the Nikon.
Maybe something is wrong with this particular Canon. Maybe that's why it's been opened.
Most other high speed recordings of these camera shutters omit the mirror moving out of the way, and that's the mechanism that makes the most noise. The choice of videos is limited.
More at Quara but it's not very good.
Incidentally, many modern small cameras have a button for you to select the type sound for your camera to make. They allow the user to imitate an SLR camera sound. They actually put the noise in there for you. When ordinarily they'd be completely silent. It's like a preferred feedback thing. So you're not going, "Is this thing even on?" Is that weird, or what?
Canon. You only get one regular sound. Then one slow sound, then no sound. It shows how floppy the mirror device. The whole thing looks a bit sloppy.
Nikon. You only get two clicks. You'll notice the mirror mechanism is tighter and the sound a lot less.
Conclusion: The Canon must be broken, or old. I cannot see the company allowing this.
Each day I hold my Nikon in my hands and look at it right in its face and tell it, "Champ, you are really something. If you died today I would not be angry with you. I'd give you a respectful burial. You've so far outdistanced my expectations that I can't even believe you're still with me. Considering what a slob owner I am. What an amazing thing that you are. Thank you for your service. Well done. You've earned your reward. And I'll continue to use you until you drop dead. And I'll respect your decision to die. And I'll replace you with something spectacular like you are. Something that's worthy of your faithful service. You are actually better than having a dog."
Well, I don't say that whole thing everyday. But I think it.
4 comments:
I would go with "device" rather than "devise".
Thanks. I'm actually self-taught by the p-honetic system.
A sy-stem of your own devising, yes?
Yes. Comes from fingerspelling doing and receiving in chunks. It has its drawbacks such as "st" for saint and for street. So things like the "st" bernard on yale "st" come out "the street Bernard on Yale saint." And "phone" comes out "puh -hone." Even so, among my deaf friends I am the top speller.
And by top, I mean tippy-top.
Even at my age of fourteen and they at ages thirty.
One time they were playing a word game and my friend spelled "Aglu"
Nobody could guess what that meant.
He said, "eskimo house" then formed a dome with one hand and plunked it on the other flat hand and everyone went, "O-o-o-o-o-h yeah. Yeah. Good one."
And I'm all, no wait, that's an "igloo."
And the whole group was all, "So what. Shut up. It doesn't matter. Gawl. You think you have to spell everything exactly? sWho are you anyway, Shake sphere? "
And I'm all, "Yes. You do."
And they all looked at me with dis gust. Like ew, scared a you.
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