Lon Williamson wrote: > > A lot of "street photographers" seem to work this way. > There were a lot of rangefinder 35mm cameras made with > iris shutters and 35mm focal length
Of course Leica is probably the most common "street photographer" camera, and it is a focal plane shutter. Yet it is very quiet. It's the mirror that creates most of the noise in an SLR. I shot this with my ancient Leica iiif sitting on the table in a Paris cafe. The woman at the next table, who was no more than four feet away, never glanced my way. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1542479 Paul
