Glad I’m not the only one annoyed by this stupidity!
My new Sony A7 iii has a silent shutter option. And 10 frames per second too!!
Boycott Nikon/Canon!
They are professional photographers, and they use real cameras, not those crappy minicomputers. It goes with the territory.
Meanwhile, I’d like to ban everyone from using their damn minicomputers to obsessively and obtrusively record/photograph every stupid thing they think is worthy, from real sports history (witness the Triple Crown the other year, when a bunch of hands are up clicking, rather than watching it with their own eyes), to kiddie graduations.
I was thinking the same thing when I watched it earlier. You couldn’t hear a damn thing over the constant clicks.
Back when my late Father was a news photographer in the 1940s and ‘50s, the was no clicking, just “snap” and the flash gun going off on his large format Speed Graphic. Then came 35mm cameras.
This really isn’t “news”.
I remember all the flashbulbs going off at historic events in the sixties.
Same as it ever was.
What on earth do you think professional cameras do when they are taking photos?
Solved! Now on to the next world crisis!
It’s a good life when clicking cameras is your problem. You are indeed blessed.
Pros use DSLR cameras, and when the mirror slaps down so the sensor can be exposed, it makes a noise. There are other boops and beeps that can be turned off, but the mirror mechanism is going to still make noise.
You are assuming journalists are smart enough to understand technology
They use old reflex cameras going 10 per second and making ridiculous noise. They have to take that many to get a bad picture of Trump.
Yes!!! Thanks for saving me the rant!
Dozens of photographers taking hundreds maybe thousands of photos. Who pays these people?! Their photos must all be identical. I think the news agencies should get together and pay just one person for their photos and get rid of all the others.
Damn yeah!
Yup, it drives me nuts, thinking that these inconsiderate assholes have the nerve to make this racket. The Secret Service agents should grab and smash the unsilenced cameras.
Damn great idea! They are certainly adept at editing out applause and undercutting audience body counts for our president, silent cameras should be easy for them as well.
ditto....diTTo...DITTO !!!
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