Can i silence the shutter on a cannon 400d SLR camera?

Question

Can i silence the shutter on a cannon 400d SLR camera?

Answer 1

as a menu option you can turn off the electronic sounds produced by the camera. but the shutter is still mechanical and will make some noise on its own.

Answer 2

You can't silence it. It isn't an electronically produced sound like with point and shoot cameras. It's an actual mechanical shutter and the mirror has to be lifted too.

Answer 3

The best way to silence it would be to bubble wrap it as best as you can, if you are trying to take pictures of some one with out them noticing then your best bet is to find a longer focal length lens (such as one of the budget 55-300mm lens). As for making it quieter without being further away or looking like you forgot to unwrap your camera you could try the camera armour made by delkin, it costs around £35 ($60). It may not be all that effective for sound, how ever it also protects your camera from minor scratches and knocks.

Answer 4

By silencing the shutter, May assume that this is because you wish to photograph something like a bird or other creature without 'spooking' it?

If this is the case, then I would suggest using the mirror lock feature, as it is usually the noise made by the mirror moving up and down that makes the most noise.

Apparently, the mirror lock-up function is 'buried within a custom function'.

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Answer 5

No, although you can call Canon's help line and see if they have knowledge of any service that will do that for you.  800.OK-CANON.

In my experience, Canon is rather silent when the mirror flops up and the shutter opens.  In fact so quiet, my models could not tell when I had taken a shot and needed to move and strike a new pose.  I experienced this when using one of my colleagues 1Ds Mark III's and 5D's while he was using my D300 and D3 during a model shoot.

The quietest camera is still the Leica M series rangefinder.  Most of the noise you hear when using a SLR or DSLR is the sound of the mirror flopping up and down during the exposure ... not the shutter itself.

Ask Canon if they use motors or springs to move their mirrors out of the way of the film plane ... if a motor is being used, then your camera is about as quiet as it will get ... other schemes include a piece of foam between the mirror and focusing screen.

Most advanced DSLR's have a "mirror up" option and with it you can see how quiet your shutter actually is, but to use your camera in this mode, you will have to have an external viewer that you can attach to your hot shoe and you may not have the auto-focus feature, so the only way to focus would be to use your skills using hyper-focal focusing.