Silent Mode on a Canon EOS 30D?

Does the 30D have a 'silent mode'? ...where it's possible to take
photographs without the usual indication beeps, shutter noises, etc.,
happening? (Google mentions the 40D having the silent feature.)

I ask, because I have a 'friend' (a somewhat notible member of a local
Flickr group..) who I suspect is taking sneak photos of of my female
friends from behind, bending over, upskirts beneath the table, etc. I've
told him to fscking stop it, but he carries on like I'm overreacting.
There's photos he's uploaded that I know were taken surreptitiously
(hands folded over the camera.. pinky finger suspiciously near to the
shutter button..) yet I didn't notice any indication from the camera a
photo was being taken.

Yes, it's about time to get heavy on him about it. :/

 

You can certainly turn off the focus beep on pretty much all the Canon
DSLRs. Dunno about silencing the shutter tho. Perhaps he makes a noise to
cover it?

 

Just say in a loud voice, "Why are you taking photographs up these
ladies' skirts, Basil?". That'll get the girls' attention, and
hopefully one or more of them will bend his camera round his skull - or
maybe a boyfriend or two will do the honours.

I'd call him out when he is doing it.

Colin D.

PS: apologies to the Basils out there {

 

I'd call him out when he is doing it.

Been tried, which lead me to make the first posting in the thread-- "I
didn't hear the camera beep.." from one of the victims, which put me
in the situation of being The Bad Guy Making Unfounded Accusations. :/

What's worse, if I bring out a camera, I immediately get screamed at
to stop taking sneak photos. :/ (But the guy with a semi-pro SLR
gear, who hires naked models, and associates with pro snapshotters,
/wouldn't/ be taking photos underneath a table with a camera that for
some strange reason always needs adjusting down from ISO8000.. oh no..)

Another option is just to pressure everyone to avoid inviting him
along, "which can be problematical". :/

 

You gave up too easily. State that some cameras don't beep, and demand
to see the last frame on the lcd. He'll probably refuse, but his body
language should by now be obvious to all, and keep insisting that
everybody wants to see that last frame. If he gets angry, goes red in
the face, blusters, etc., his guilt will be obvious.

Or, just maybe, he is the type who excites females, and they actually
enjoy flashing for his camera. I knew a pro photog years ago, a real
rough, earthy type, who always had girls, specially nurses from the
local IH hospital falling over themselves to get photographed in
underwear, nude, etc. Never happened to me or my camera colleagues
though. {:-(

Colin D.