Hollywood - such genius!

[wfooshee]

One of my pet peeves with movies and TV shows is things doing stuff they just can't do. You know, 8 shots from a 5-shot revolver, or a semi-auto with slide locked back empty that keeps clicking. Or the click and dial tone after a cell phone conversation. Then there are racing movies where the driver suddenly figures out "Oh, I need to go FAST!!"" and they show him flooring it and shifting. When he was already supposedly as fast as possible. And don't even start with surveillance cameras and "zoom and enhance." Yeah, pull a tag number from a frame where the tag was originally 17 pixels by 14. I do it all the time with Photoshop!

Awesome.

But I've noticed today and recently something that really galls my gut. Somebody leans out a car window on a stakeout with a digital SLR and a ginormous lens, and the scene switches to the viewfinder point-of-view, showing a split-image rangefinder and a meter needle on the side, and you hear a motor-drive sound every time the picture blinks.

It just seems like somebody out there, in amongst all those folks that operate cameras for a living, could step up and say, "Y'know, that's not quite right...."

[hminx]

Such arrogance........

[Axle]

hear a motor-drive sound every time the picture blinks.

That is the sound made by a Nikon F3 with a MD-4 motordrive attached to it. I know this only because I own these two items. It's a stock sound clip, and people will instantly recognize it as "oh they just took a photo"