high shutter count?

[paigew]

3 year old camera.

It just goes to prove that high shutter count cameras are still worth something.

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I'm sure shooting birds has something to do with that high shutter count

Also it's interesting how your shutter % is compared to mine...you have almost the same amount of shots but I have used more shutter %???

I'd be curious what the count is for someone that covers MLB. On a 1D or 7D at around 10 fps every night for 162 games, and then the playoffs, those counts must be very high. I'm not a spray and pray shooter but the new mirrorless is sooooo quiet and the viewfinder is seamless as it is shooting that it is easy to accidentaly rattle of 10 plus shots and not realize it.

What body made it to a quarter million?

Both my bodies are mark iii and honestly they are still going strong, I bet they would last another year. I am excited about the mirrorless and how quiet it will be.

 

[zombiesniper]

Also it's interesting how your shutter % is compared to mine...you have almost the same amount of shots but I have used more shutter %???

Each model of camera has it's own expected minimum shutter life. Based on this your cameras minimum expected is less than mine.

P.S. I count the shutter actuations as I'm shooting birds.

 

[CherylL]

That is a lot of clicks and fun with your camera. Congrats on the new Sony. I love my Fuji XT-4 for the weight. Started off with the XT-2 used to see if I liked Fuji. The 5D mark iii still gets used when I am not hiking somewhere.

 

[mjcmt]

My Nikon D750 shows shutter count in a photos metadata w/o 3rd party software. I've taken 500 shots in the month I've owned it.

 

[zombiesniper]

My Nikon D750 shows shutter count in a photos metadata w/o 3rd party software. I've taken 500 shots in the month I've owned it.

Ya Canon likes to hide shutter count for some reason.

 

[Pixeldawg1]

I have a D2x that I used as a daily camera and last time I checked it, it was working on a million frames, mostly sports photography, so a high count for each event. The body is in America unfortunately, so I can't give you an exact number.

 

[photoflyer]

Imagine what all these high shutter counts would cost in film even if never processed.

 

[paigew]

Imagine what all these high shutter counts would cost in film even if never processed.

Too damn much! Ha!

 

[CharlesF]

I never counted, but I had way over 200,000 photos taken on my old basic basic cheapo Canon EOS 1100D when I sold it. It was working just fine. I don't always believe a high shutter count means the camera is at imminent risk of death... my 60D had over 200,000 too.

 

[Original katomi]

A lot , says the chap who used to use 5m of fp4 at a time and work out a Pentax k1000 lens

 

[zombiesniper]

Almost every model of camera has its own expected shutter life. It's not a universal number.

 

[petrochemist]

Almost every model of camera has its own expected shutter life. It's not a universal number.

More significantly it's a MEAN value, some will fail in under 1/10 this number others will continue working to beyond 5x the expected life.

 

[petrochemist]

I've not checked the count on my DSLRs for a couple of years (since I started using mirrorless most of the time?) It seems they averaged about 10-15k a year which I find suprisingly low knowing I've shot 4k in just in one day.

IIRC my Pentax & Sony cameras can have the shutter count determined just by uploading a JPG to a website (allowing me to check it in the past as well) but my Panasonics have a complicated button sequence needed to show the current count. Even worse each model has a different sequence & it's not publisised.

 

[SquarePeg]

Fuji XT2 is impossible to get a good reading on any of those sites! I've read that it's something in the firmware that disrupts the way they read it. And then there is the mechanical shutter vs electronic shutter so it also depends on how you shoot. Based solely on the file numbering of the last photo I took, I guess it's 8,423? That seems low to me because I shot a lot this year but then again for astro, which was most of my 2020 shooting, I'm taking 10-20 20 second shots per composition which really doesn't add up to that many in the short milky way windows... so I guess it could be right.

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