I’m writing this article in late August, a little while after World Photography Day. I spent a part of the weekend at a giant meetup held by Jamel Shabazz and there was a gentleman who used to shoot a lot of sports. With him, he brought his Canon 1DX camera and fired a few frames. I turned around and expressed to him how much I missed the sound of actual camera shutters. I’m not talking about mirrorless cameras, the only one that I really loved the sound of was the Leica M9 — and even that’s in retrospect. The original Sony a7 and the Olympus Pen EP1 also had beautiful shutter sounds. But today, modern cameras are too quiet and have lost their way.
