4.7 rant

**Mad Aussie** · 03-08-2010, 02:41 PM

Until they stop Harley Davidsons belting out 120+ db's I'm sure as hell not going to worry about how my beep is.

The beep is what? 2 db?

When I'm taking photos, and there are people close enough to hear my beep, I'll betcha their big mouths are making way more noise than me and my camera.

**Marko** · 03-08-2010, 02:55 PM

Not if you are wedding photographer and the beeps (from the pro's camera as well as the cameras of guests) keep going on during the ceremony.
It really depends on the environment....

**casil403** · 03-08-2010, 03:53 PM

As I said mine is vision issue based.... so if it annoys people should I stop doing photography then?

The other issue for me then to not use it is to have photos not in focus...which happens more times than not if I take the sound away....I have trouble seeing the red dot a lot of times.
Which one is it?

**Marko** · 03-08-2010, 04:17 PM

No offense meant casil and nobody is telling you to stop taking pix - course not you take great pix.

I just added my comment that it's annoying in certain cases...In most cases the natural noise of the environment blocks out the beep.

If you were hearing impaired and spoke too loudly in public, that too would be annoying if nobody knew were hearing impaired as they might just think that you are one of those um 'loud' people.... Most people are compassionate so if they KNOW the reason, they'll be cool with it...but in your case How can they know? It's a tricky one on an obviously sensitive subject

My comment was off topic anyway so I'll stop now.

**casil403** · 03-08-2010, 04:24 PM

No offense taken at all Marko...

I guess I just meant that there are all sides of the coin and mine is a legitimate impairment....never used to be until I suffered a fairly decent concussion a year an a half ago...which caused some permanent vision impairment/loss.

Funny story...I was with a friend of mine the other day who has a cararact and cannot see out of his eye...we were trying to find a number in the phonebook so he passes it to me to find it and I can't see anything except a bunch of blurry double letters (bad eye day) so he (the blind man) has to read it to me!

**Mad Aussie** · 03-08-2010, 06:53 PM

Actually that is a good point. If the environment dictates that silence (or as quiet as one can be) is necessary, such as during the wedding ceremony, or shooting a gall bladder operation or something, then certainly turning off the beep would be a courtesy to others.

But if someone walks up to me in a park and tells me my beep is too loud I'm likely to tell them that "in one single sentence you just made more useless noise than my beep is going to make in a year of shooting so <beep> off <beep>head "

**F8&Bthere** · 03-08-2010, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by Mad Aussie

Don't be a dumbass

You should make a beep sound with your mouth

If you're really 'pro' ... you'd make whirring sounds when you focus too!

Lol. this thread is a hoot. I have an old beater chevy pickup and when I park at the grocery store or somewhere else in town and my dog is with me, just before I shut my door I release the driver's seat forward so he doesn't sit there and get it full of dog hair, and when I do that it springs forward and hits the horn. And every time someone happens to be walking by and hears the brief honk as I shut my door I chuckle (inside) that it's like I'm activating my cowboy car alarm. Sometimes I even pretend I'm pushing a button on my keychain just to mess with their minds (like why would anyone install an alarm on that old piece of junk?)