4.7 rant

[Mad Aussie]

Never even heard of such a suggestion (to turn off beep to look less amateur) and certainly won't be giving it an ounce of thought. Next thing they be telling you how to dress or what camera to use too.

[Michaelaw]

I doubt they'd dare mention it in your hood MA Interesting as an aside, when you think about how many potential concepts we choose to divide ourselves over...Mac, PC...Dog, Cat,...Nikon, Canon...Ford, Chevy...Gibson, Fender...Liberal, Conservative to the nth calculation. It's the beastie within, the driver of this behavior, that eventually could place us in a very low spike on the historical chart of our overall performance as humans. Couple all this with the weight of beeping or not and.....

[jjeling]

HA! Do you know how many times Ive been laughed at or asked why I use a Pentax camera. Same idea. I think they are jealous because their hot knob isnt quite as nice as mine. :-)

[Mad Aussie]

[AcadieLibre]

Camera's have beeps? I couldn't hear them over the music anyway. I just assumed everyone turned off anything annoying, guess what annoys some helps others.

[Michaelaw]

From what I've seen of great Pentax imagery you have little to defend. As an X Olympus user I can tell you flat out that the products gleam. You can have a billion dollar hammer and bend a nail. Once the nail is bent, it's up to your PP skills. More important, it's not what you use to capture the image but the image itself...That's where the rubber hits the road. Any discussion that ignores this fact is doomed to walk in fields of geek jargon till 2012. Now you stand up on a chair or something, with your Pentax held high over your head and yell " I'm a Pentax user and I'm Proud!"

[ericmark]

As a Pentax user with no beep. Should I put a beeper in my pocket and trigger it just before taking picture?
My auto focus will not allow me to open shutter until it's correctly set together with anti shake seems a pain at times but give it its due don't delete as many when it's turned on. And what is the point in taking a photo to then just delete.
It was the unheard noise which bugged me. New web cam is OK but old one would pick up phones polling but you never realised until you came to play back.
Wonder if they mess up any photos? One would not realise a phone had polled so unlikely to ever realise what had caused bad image!

[Mad Aussie]

As a Pentax user with no beep. Should I put a beeper in my pocket and trigger it just before taking picture?

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!

[F8&Bthere]

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?)

[Mad Aussie]

... and with the latest Canine Intrusion System in place anyhow!!