Electronic shutter noise on the R7

Alastair Norcross wrote:

MAC wrote:

TTphoto16 wrote:

A few weeks back I finally got hold of my R7 and am generally very impressed with it. My question I suspect and hope is a simple a case of user misunderstanding. Out of the box when switching to electronic single shot the noise when I take a shot sounds like an electronic stutter not a single noise like mechanical or first curtain.

It sounds like it’s on continuous shooting.

like Canon said, doesn't make sense or sound normal that it sounds like continuous shooting when it is in single shot mode

I suspect that whoever answered the question at Canon didn't actually understand what was being asked. It doesn't actually sound like it's on continuous shooting. There are two clicks in rapid succession. If you are in full mechanical, that's exactly what you should hear, because the shutter has to close first, before it opens, then closes again. It doesn't bother me at all (though, as I said, I usually use full silent mode with e-shutter). I can understand someone worrying about whether the shutter should sound like that. What I can't understand is why people complain about the sound, once they find out that it's supposed to sound like that. One could almost suspect that people are determined to complain about something, anything. I suppose that if people are complaining about the shutter sound on the R7, they must be overall pretty satisfied with the camera, given how silly a thing it is to complain about. But then again, I read a thread a few days ago where someone was complaining that the R cameras are too boxy, and not curvy like the Canon DSLRs!

ok, now we're flushing out what is going on with the two clicks that is the way the normal mechanical shutter works with one shot and the first/second curtain.

the way the op described it, it sounded like the op was talking about a continuous machine gun sound   and Canon probably interpreted the Op's description as abnormal, when if described properly, is indeed normal replication of the mechanical shutter

case solved!

If I disable shutter sound it goes away implying it’s a created sound. The pictures are great and a vast improvement on the old 500D but just want to check this is normal. I raised it with Canon who replied it wasn’t normal and suggested trying it with a canon R lens, but not sure I explained it or they understood. I’m presently using two sigma zooms, predominately the 100 - 400 contemporary. The adapter is the std one shipped with the camera. Can’t try it with an R lens as I haven’t got one.
No fancy multi exposure settings etc are enabled, it’s still virtually factory set. I tried disabling autofocus and image stabilisation on the lens with no effect

So for all you R7 owners out there have I got a fault or is it just me having no experience of mirrorless before. Happy to eat humble pie if I’m just being ignorant but don’t want to use it if there is a fault. Having only ever used DSLRs and small point and shoot digital it doesn’t sound as expected I.e. single noise