Originally posted by Welfl 1.) On a scale of ONE to TEN, with ONE being the least tolerable sound, how would you rate the K-30's shutter? I know "tolerable" is a very subjective term, but I'm pretty sure we (or at least I) can trust the feelings of a veteran DSLR user.
Hopelessly subjective, actually. There is no way any number I put there without any basis for comparison that you can relate it to would have any meaning at all. Eg, if we don't agree on what number we'd give the K-r, how could a number I give the K-30 have meaning? The K-r, for example, stuuck me as about a 4 Sounds like some consider it far worse than I do.
Anyhow, based on what I heard last night, I'd put numbers about as follows, from worst to best:
645D: 1.5 (yes, hey had one of those there!)
K-r: 4
K-30: 5
K200D: 6.5
K-5: 8.5
K-01: 9.5 (I think/assume; I don't actually noticing its sound, presumabky because it is close to slient as one would expect)
There was also a Q, and it was way more fun to play with than it had any right to be, but it had an artificially simulated shutter sound that I didn't bother to try to turn off, so I can't say for sure where it would fit. I have to assume it would be in the 9.5 range, though.
Again, what surprised me was how close the K-r and K200D sounded, whereas my memory was that the K-x was much worse: in the 1-2 range. Wish I saw one there to compare with, but I didn't. So either the K-r really is moticeably quieter than the K-x (and if so that would be the first I've heard of this), or the K-r I was hearing was unusually quit for some reason, or my memory or my ability to judge sounds in a crowded room leaves something to be desired. Either way, not a very scientific test, I'm afraid. But the one result I could not mistake was that the K-30 was clearly louder than the K200D, which was clearly louder than the K-5. The diffeence between the K-r and K-30 was smaller in comparison.
Quote: 2.) How loud is the average film SLR shutter compared to the one in the K-30 (as well as the K-r, K-5, etc.)?***
i have no real basis for comparison here. My recollection of the sound of the K1000 is that it is quieter than the K-30 - more like the K200D, perhaps. But no way should anyone rely on my memory for something like this.
Quote: 3.) How loud are the shutters in "budget" DSLRs from Canon, Nikon, Sony, etc., compared to the K-30 (as well as the K-r, K-5, etc.)?
No budget DSLR comes close to the K-5. But most I've heard over the past couple of years are quieter than the K--x, maybe on par with K200D? Again, I'm speaking more off the top of my head here.
Do note, BTW, that we ae virtually never actually talking about the sound of shutters here. Shutters are practically silent. It is the mirror we are really talking about here.