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Canon patents haptic shutter button that vibrates when you lock focus

Jan 24, 2023 by John Aldred 2 Comments

I’m quite surprised that it’s taken this long for something like this to appear. Even just in patent form, it’s taken quite a while. To have not seen it in an interchangeable lens camera yet has always struck me as a little odd given the prevalence of this feature in smartphones and countless other devices – especially given the need for silent shooting in many genres, like weddings and events.

Still, Canon has patented (Japanese Patent #2023009356) a vibrating shutter button. It provides haptic feedback, vibrating to let you know when you’ve locked focus on a subject. In all other respects, it’s a perfectly normal shutter. When you half-press it, though, and it nails focus, you get physical feedback, letting you disable your audible confirmation and still be sure your subject’s in focus.

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This Canon 5D Mark II has shot over 2.2 million photos

Sep 27, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

On the used camera market, the question you always see is “How many actuations does it have?” It’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask. It’s no more weird than wanting to know how many miles the used car you’re about to buy has done. The more it’s done and the more it’s been used, the less life there’s likely to be left in it, right?

While some manufacturers don’t post the numbers publicly, pretty much all cameras come with some kind of expected shutter life count. These days, that number hovers somewhere between 100K and about 300K depending on the level of camera you buy. The Canon 5D Mark II was rated to 150K when it was released back in 2008. But this one, acquired by YouTuber FoxTailWhipz has over 2.2 million actuations and is still going strong.

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This is what the Canon EOS R7 shutter sounds like

Jun 23, 2022 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

The Canon EOS R7 has a lot to live up to. It has to continue the legacy left by Canon’s popular 7D series. I’ve no double the EOS R7 will meet and even exceed the expectations of many, but with none really in anybody’s hands except for a select few there are some unanswered questions. One of which being, what does it sound like?

Sure, how a shutter sounds isn’t high up on the list of priorities for a lot of photographers, but when filming secretive wildlife that can get easily spooked, a loud shutter is potentially an issue. And it’s always interesting to hear how different cameras do sound. Many people love that satisfying thunk of medium format shutters, for example. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait for EOS R7 shutter sounds as they’ve been posted to YouTube.

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This catchy song was played with the camera shutter clicks

May 11, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment

Camera shutter sounds are photographers’ ASMR and they can be oddly satisfying. But have you ever thought about creating a song using these recognizable clicks?

Folks at MIOPS have created a camera symphony in the literal sense of the word. Teaming up with a sound artist, MIOPS recently published a song that was composed and played using the shutter clicks of various cameras.

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The Nikon Z9’s shutter sound is the cat’s meow… literally

Feb 28, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment

The Nikon Z9 has a bunch of features you may like and some that you may not. But in which of these two categories does the shutter sound fall?

Well, if you’re a cat person, then the sound of the Z9’s electronic shutter might be perfect for you. It’s a cat’s meow in the most literal sense of the expression. Yes, your Z9 can meow at you!

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The sound of Canon R3’s 30fps at 1/64000 shutter will blow your mind

Sep 17, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment

The Canon EOS R3 was announced a few days ago, and its specs are quite impressive. One of the interesting features is the up to 30fps continuous shooting with the electronic shutter, and Geng Hui Tan shares how it sounds in this short video. Spoiler alert: it sounds epic!

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Here are the satisfying shutter sounds of 18 different cameras from 35mm to 8×10 large format

Jun 11, 2021 by John Aldred Leave a Comment

With so many cameras offering completely silent electronic shutter these days – which is understandable for things like weddings and events where the noise of shutters can be quite distracting – it’s easy to forget just how satisfying the sounds of some camera shutters can be. It’s also quite interesting how these sounds can take some of us back to our past when we hear certain sounds from cameras we’ve shot and have pleasant memories of.

In this video, photographer Sails Chong has recorded the sounds from 18 different camera shutters, and various other noises and compiled them into a very relaxing 5-minute video. The video covers everything from 35mm SLRs through Fuji, Hasselblad and Phase One medium format up to 8×10 large format.

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Sony ASMR: Enjoy the shutter sounds of all A7r cameras

Jan 21, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment

With every new camera in the series, there are some changes and improvements over its predecessors. Some of these changes even include the shutter sound. If you’d like to hear how it changed across all four Sony A7R models, turn your volume up and check out the videos below.

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Canon comes up with a shutter button like no shutter button before it

Dec 20, 2020 by Udi Tirosh 22 Comments

There are many kinds of cameras: DSLRs, point and shoot, mirrorless, even that weird Sony F707 from when DSLRs started. But one thing almost never changed since when cameras started. Even the old Analog cameras. The Shutte Button. Sure, it was mechanical at first and got a new “half-press” when auto fucus was introduced. But the overall mechanics stayed the same. Click the button – make a photo.

In a patent application spotted by Canon News, you see something that resembles a touchpad. If you google translate the patent (like I did), you see that it does not just resemble a touchpad. It is a touchpad. Moreover, the back LCD has another touch screen, similar to what we are actually used to in recent camera lines.

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This video shows 50 years of film camera shutter sounds

Oct 27, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic Leave a Comment

If there’s such thing as ASMR videos for photographers, it must be the videos of camera shutter sounds. Ace Noguera created an interesting and slightly different kind of such video. He collected nine cameras dating from the 1940s to 1990s and recorded their shutter sound. Other than being oddly satisfying, this video is also a brief history of film camera shutter sounds.

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