Why can't the press get 21st century cameras?

[DBrow]

http://media.the-digital-picture.com/Sounds/Canon-EOS-40D-Burst.mp3

here is a recording of a 40D in burst mode

[Yo-Yo]

Digital SLRs are still "Single Lens Reflex" cameras, and as such you are looking through the lens via a mirror in the camera body that reflects light to the viewfinder. When you take the picture, the mirror flips up (blocking your view in the viewfinder) then the shutter opens to expose the film or digital sensor. Since only the film has been replaced by an electronic sensor, you still get the mirror and shutter noise from a DSLR.

The only noise missing from the old film days is the sound of the power winder. (But that can usually be simulated through a speaker.)

[raybbr]

The high end cameras still have shutters. What should they use - pocket digitals?

Marooon!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Do you mean LAT/LONG for GPS equipped mobile phones? I think landlines give the address.

[JoeFromSidney]

So where can one readily buy flash bulbs and flash cubes? They worked great connected to trip wires.

Hey, I never thought of that. Maybe we'll have to go back to old-fashioned flash powder.

[FrankR]

Maybe it’s more of a problem with microphone placement, than it is with camera clicks.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>I know for a fact that 911 definitely has caller id in some jurisdictions. A 911 hang up will result in a visit by the local constabulary.

True for land-line originated calls. Not always true for cellular originated calls - the really up to date dispatch centers would not only get your cell phone # when you call 911, but your phone’s GPS would tell the dispatcher where you are.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Even digital SLRs have shutters.

Exactly... The best DSLR's in the world make noise. Professional photographers do not use point and shoot digital cameras.

[Army Air Corps]

Frankly, I like the sound of the mirror and shutter on my DSLR and it is a little quieter than my old SLR.

[Deaf Smith]

We used to rig them to doorways at estimated head height.

[Dan(9698)]

I maintain the data for our County system.

The Cellphones on Verizon's system have GPS build in.

The ones in Union Wireless do not. The Union system calculates coordinates if two or more towers receive
the signal, so most report the coordinates.

The Land line report the address, and the system has a data file of addresses with coordinates, so there is also a map point for Land line phones.

We only get one or two calls each week that do not show a map point of the location.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Thanks for the 411.

[Tatze]

Even digital SLRs have shutters.