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Silent shooting

Silent shooting

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Silent shooting

- If you've ever been around a lot of cameras at once, you may have noticed the sound of them clicking. It can be distracting, annoying, or even downright deafening, depending on the number of cameras. Fortunately, Nikon offers a way to quiet your camera down with two different quiet shutter release modes. The quiet shutter release is just like the single release mode. It takes a single picture, except what happens is the camera doesn't make as much sound and the mirror may not click back into place until you release the shutter button. To access this, I just press to release the dial here and turn that to the Q mode for quiet single. Now when we take the picture, watch what happens. And the mirror stays up (clicks) until I release. This actually allows you to take a picture and then perhaps move away from the sound. If you leave the shutter button half-pressed, the mirror will not go down until you release the shutter button. So this is quieter overall. Quiet mode will also stop some…

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