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Any way to silence my 10D?

 
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Oct 23, 2005 17:33 |  #1

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to silence (or muffle) shutter/mirror noise? I use a 10D (with a variety of Canon and Sigma lenses), and was shooting a chamber music concert whose audience members were quite irked with the noise I was generating...

Any insights would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Amy


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Oct 23, 2005 17:45 |  #2

amybyersphoto wrote:
Hi there,

Can anyone tell me if there is a way to silence (or muffle) shutter/mirror noise? I use a 10D (with a variety of Canon and Sigma lenses), and was shooting a chamber music concert whose audience members were quite irked with the noise I was generating...

Any insights would be most appreciated!

Thanks,
Amy

Here's a web site that will give you the only real solution to the noise problem. http://www.soundblimp.​com/canon.htm (external link)


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Oct 23, 2005 17:59 |  #3

Can't help you ...I do shoots of Pipes n Drums playing and street parades and don't irk anybody!


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Oct 23, 2005 20:01 |  #4

Or you can make your own soundblimp from a lunch box.


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Oct 23, 2005 22:48 as a reply to  @ SkipD's post |  #5

SkipD wrote:
Here's a web site that will give you the only real solution to the noise problem. http://www.soundblimp.​com/canon.htm (external link)

For some reason, this made me literally LOL.:lol::lol::lol:



  
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Oct 24, 2005 00:30 |  #6

Looks like a good idea for what I do...


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Oct 24, 2005 06:02 as a reply to  @ MegaTron's post |  #7

MegaTron wrote:
For some reason, this made me literally LOL.:lol::lol::lol:

Those sound blimps are required equipment for still photographers shooting on movie sets. They aren't a joke, even though they look like it.


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Oct 24, 2005 10:13 as a reply to  @ SkipD's post |  #8

"Those sound blimps are required equipment for still photographers shooting on movie sets. They aren't a joke, even though they look like it."

Yup - goes back to the early years of movie production.

Mitchell cameras were the top units. Made a lot of machine noise and needed to be silenced or muffled - original device was a light framework of metal with a heavy felt envelope. Someone lost in time stated that they looked like 'Blimps' and the name stuck. Wildlife film guys who still shoot film continue to use them.


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