D50 shutter life

Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?
28 hours, 51 minutes and 11 seconds.
Give or take, of course.

To figure out how many exposures that is, you'll have to
determine your average exposure and then do the math.
This is the reason fast lenses and high quality pictures from
high ISOs are so important. You can take a lot more pictures
shooting at 1/1000th of a second than you can at 1/60th.
In order to increase my camera's life, I always use f/2.8 or
better and ISO 800. I tried shooting at ISO 1600 but you
really have to balance quality with longevity. Still, when you
cut your shutter speed in half, you also cut the maximum
number of images in half. But, I feel it worthwhile for the
lower image noise.

Matt
 
Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?
28 hours, 51 minutes and 11 seconds.
Give or take, of course.

To figure out how many exposures that is, you'll have to
determine your average exposure and then do the math.
This is the reason fast lenses and high quality pictures from
high ISOs are so important. You can take a lot more pictures
shooting at 1/1000th of a second than you can at 1/60th.
In order to increase my camera's life, I always use f/2.8 or
better and ISO 800. I tried shooting at ISO 1600 but you
really have to balance quality with longevity. Still, when you
cut your shutter speed in half, you also cut the maximum
number of images in half. But, I feel it worthwhile for the
lower image noise.

Matt
is this a joke????

you sacrifice print quality, and DOF(when needed), because you think it will make your camera last longer?

all, just for a few hundred bucks for a shutter replacement over a multi-year life of a camera body?

I'm sorry if you're serious, and I'm sorry if I'm wrong about your theory, but your post is one of the most outrageous I've read in a long time.

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Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?
28 hours, 51 minutes and 11 seconds.
Give or take, of course.

To figure out how many exposures that is, you'll have to
determine your average exposure and then do the math.
This is the reason fast lenses and high quality pictures from
high ISOs are so important. You can take a lot more pictures
shooting at 1/1000th of a second than you can at 1/60th.
In order to increase my camera's life, I always use f/2.8 or
better and ISO 800. I tried shooting at ISO 1600 but you
really have to balance quality with longevity. Still, when you
cut your shutter speed in half, you also cut the maximum
number of images in half. But, I feel it worthwhile for the
lower image noise.

Matt
Thanks for the info Matt, I guess that to maximise shutter life I should be shooting RAW at 1/4000th and just pulling my levels up in Photoshop, this will give me over 400k exposures out of my camera... nice.

I now see the advantage of the D80 with its 1/8000th sec min shutter speed :)

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Probably more than you'll take... I've heard of 50k, 70k, 120k.
I'm guessing that you'll upgrade your camera before it dies unless
you're a professional shooter or something.
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Yeah, you're probably right. Given my past experiance with film SLRs, I'm more likely to get it stolen or see how well it floats before I will actually wear out anything mechanical :(

Just curious, thats all :)

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Made me laugh reading this, always placed on this forum, around 50,000 shots so you will be well rid of the camera by then so dont worry, and if you still have it at that stage you have had more than your money out of it, think 50,000 photos in 35mm film and devoloped, work out that price and see what you paid for your D50, as I always say to people it costs peanuts to run a DSLR if you look at it that way.

Pete
 
I dunno. 50,000 doesn't seem like so much.

I got my D50 last night and I've pulled the trigger at least 500 times since then. I'm 1% through my shutter's life in less than 24hrs!? Save me! grin
 
I remeber that this was discussed many times on Canon forum. The reason is that the 30d press release contained info that it has improved shutter with lifespan of 100 000 cycles. The question was what was the lifespan of 20d and 350d. If I remeber correctly, the answer was that it can be as low as 30 000. The number is much higher for high-end camers (D2x, Mark II), then it is like 200 000.

So I suppose that the number in question should be similar as for 350d, so maybe as low as 30 000. For me it is really very low number, I own D70s for 5 months, and I shoot almost 6000 photos.

By the way, does anybody know what is the cost of repleacing the shutter?
Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?

I know of a guy on flickr who has had 50k out of his, but how many
should I expect to get out of mine ?

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does anybody know what is the cost of repleacing the shutter?
If the camera is out of warranty, I can't imagine anyone
replacing the shutter. It has to be a $400 repair by the time
you include shipping. I'd hate to sink that much money into
a digital camera more than a year old.

Matt
 
Yeah, you're probably right. Given my past experiance with film
SLRs, I'm more likely to get it stolen or see how well it floats
before I will actually wear out anything mechanical :(

Just curious, thats all :)

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You can't compare film SLRs with digital ones, nowdays it is not uncommon to shoot more than 20 roles of (digital) film within a one day.
 
I have heard of no-one who has a dead shutter due to old age and by the time you get that old you'll have bought a new camera anyway. I can't see how the answer will make any difference to anyone. If you're a professional photographer by the time your shutter dies you'll either be rich or broike either way you won't care that much.
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Bluenose
 
I dunno. 50,000 doesn't seem like so much.

I got my D50 last night and I've pulled the trigger at least 500
times since then. I'm 1% through my shutter's life in less than
24hrs!? Save me! grin
Don't worry and keep shooting, when I was a teenager my family told me not to play with it too much or I would go blind, never listened and at 63 still have good vision...
 

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