> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Charles Robinson > > > > 2. Why do radio and TV ads depicting camera shutter presses still > > insert the sound effect for a film-era motor drive? Wake up you > > ad-creating doofuses!! It's not 1995. > > > > The sound-effect for most every digital camera (including cellphones) > tends to use this very same sound. > > I sorta "get it" as an effect on a small electronic box so you have > positive feedback that the image-taking has occurred. I DON'T 'get it' > as a foley effect for a non-film-era digital SLR being used on a > show... then it's just sloppy! >
Since a digital SLR doesn't really have a natural sound of its own the way a film SLR does, it has to be silent or invented. If you're going to invent it then almost any sound will do, like mobile phone ringtones. But putting in the sound of a farting badger, or a group of medieval nights going "Ni!" would be silly. It makes sense to have it sound like the thing it replaced, just as people still use the effect of a needle scratching a vinyl disk for sound coming to a sudden crash, even though most people under about 40 may never have used a vinyl record player, and may not even know what the sound originally signified. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
