A moment of silence for my E-3 shutter

After 45,211 actuations, my trusty E-3's shutter gave up the ghost and died.  So this creates the classic question: is it worth it to fix the shutter? I understand that it runs around $200 thru Olympus' repair.  I've had great experiences with Olympus repair facility in Hauppauge in the past - they repaired the LCD on this camera and then fixed some damage due to an unfortunate incident when the camera impacted a wet rock when I slipped on it.  That's certainly cheaper than a new (or even used) E-5.

But the question is, do repaired shutters last as long as the originals? (40-50K actuations or so?)  I'd appreciate hearing the experiences of those of you who've had this repair.  I plan on replacing the E-3 with an E-7 (fingers-crossed) or E-5 eventually but even after the replacement, it would be nice to have a back-up body.  Is it worth the repair?

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Cary Talbot
Vicksburg, MS
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