Is the D90 shutter too loud for wildlife shooting?

[lance70]

Hi, my wife and I were out on a trip in the RMNP and came to a section where everyone was taking pictures of Elk on the side of the road. We stopped and I took my D90 out, I snapped a quick picture and had this lady give me a look.... LIKE WHAT KIND OF CRAP ARE YOU SHOOTING WITH!

I felt like the shutter might of been too loud and that's why I got the look lol. Nobody was making a sound and you could clearly hear my camera when I snapped the picture. I guess the D90 is not the one to use for wildlife?

 

[Big Mike]

The Elk was by the side of the road...so unless people were driving electric cars with marshmallow tires, I don't think that your shutter would be a problem.

 

[Derrel]

It's much,much quieter than my .300 Weatherby Magnum...or my .348 Winchester...both of those are kinda loud, but hey..elk are big, tough animals...one for canyon-crossing, the other's for the brushy places on the west side...so I think a D90 would be quiet enough...

 

[Infidel]

Silencer

 

[sobolik]

I was watching a 2 foot long trout swimming and maintaining it position in the stream. My dog decided to go barreling through the stream to the other side at full gallop right over the trout. The trout just moved a touch forward until the lumbering ox passed and then returned to its spot.

Wildlife have little concern unless they associate it with humanity. I suspect the woman that gave you the look had smelly stuff in her hair, on her skin and all kinds of other placed. The elk was probably more interested in those weird stinks that the click of a shutter.

Shutter click? How silent was the transport vehical that the lady got there in? The car doors shutting?

You should have just laughed in her face and started shouting to the elk. Hey elk pose for me! They would have given you better poses that way. And then told her, don't worry, someday you might be all grown up and knowledgeable photographer also.

Golf courses install cannons to make noise to scare the geese off the course. It is not long and the geese ignore the "loud shutter clicks" from the canon.


"Noise Makers
Sudden, unexpected, loud noises will scare geese and often cause them to move on. They work most effectively when geese first show up and in conjunction with other strategies. Geese will become accustomed to any noise maker if it is overused, and they will eventually ignore the noise if no additional threat is perceived. Also, noise makers..."
http://ohioline.osu.edu/w-fact/pdf/0003.pdf

 

[o hey tyler]

Yeah, there's a high chance that the lady is just a ****ing idiot and doesn't think before she makes funny faces. I would have just shoved my camera in her face (well maybe not in her face) and just take a bunch of photos of her. See if that makes her rage quit, ya know?

And Mike, please don't make fun of my electric car and marshmallow tires, I take great pride in my eco-friendly munchies-curbing mobile.

 

[Overread]

She probably heard the shutter - turned and saw an "OMG MASSIVE CAMERA" and got jealous - hence the snobbery response of "yah you use your big camera and I'll use my small one and its getting pics just as good as yours right now" etc....


When it comes to animals there are few hard strong rules that they follow with any pattern until you start to understand individuals within the population. Some will bolt as soon as they smell you, let alone let you get close enough to make a twig snap or a shutter click.
Others won't mind much even if you started jumping up and down and shouting - provided you aren't too close

 

[RalphP13]

The problem is intrinsic to her, NOT your camera.

Ralph

 

[lance70]

Thanks for the replies!

 

[rocdoc]

My clothing and steps make WAY more noise than the shutter. I took plenty of deer pictures close-up, some bears farther away, in none of these occasions was the shutter noise a factor.
I agree with the lady giving you a look having a problem with her life in general, not your shutter.

 

[KmH]

For what it is worth. Most of the noise isn't from the shutter, it's from mirror slap.

That's why P&S camera's don't make as much noise. They aren't Single Lens Reflex cameras, and don't have a mirror.

Some of them make shutter noise electronically, just so it sounds like it's doing something.

 

[Vinny]

You should have proudly stated "It's a Nikon D90 with a (whatever lens you had attached), what kind of crap are you shooting with?" Yes, it goes "click" but I believe that is the sound of the shutter and not some electronic version of the sound ... now if you kept the beep on it would have been a different story as we all know animals are afraid of beeps.

 

[ghache]

You should have proudly stated "It's a Nikon D90 with a (whatever lens you had attached), what kind of crap are you shooting with?" Yes, it goes "click" but I believe that is the sound of the shutter and not some electronic version of the sound ... now if you kept the beep on it would have been a different story as we all know animals are afraid of beeps.

I LOLED

 

[Vinny]

You should have proudly stated "It's a Nikon D90 with a (whatever lens you had attached), what kind of crap are you shooting with?" Yes, it goes "click" but I believe that is the sound of the shutter and not some electronic version of the sound ... now if you kept the beep on it would have been a different story as we all know animals are afraid of beeps.

I LOLED

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

 

[lance70]

You should have proudly stated "It's a Nikon D90 with a (whatever lens you had attached), what kind of crap are you shooting with?" Yes, it goes "click" but I believe that is the sound of the shutter and not some electronic version of the sound ... now if you kept the beep on it would have been a different story as we all know animals are afraid of beeps.

:mrgreen: This is great!