D50 shutter life

Siafu · Sep 20, 2006

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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runningwithscissors · Sep 20, 2006

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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InitZero · Sep 20, 2006

Siafu said:
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

nipprdog · Sep 20, 2006

InitZero said:
InitZero said:

Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?

Click to expand...

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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Anto1 · Sep 20, 2006

Sorry.

Siafu · Sep 20, 2006

InitZero said:
InitZero said:

Anyone know what the rated shutter life on a D50 is ?

Click to expand...

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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Siafu · Sep 20, 2006

runningwithscissors said:
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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InitZero · Sep 21, 2006

nipprdog said:
your post is one of the most outrageous I've read in a long time.

Thanks.

{grin}

Matt

peterjohn36 · Sep 21, 2006

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

AWT · Sep 21, 2006

Don't know - But why worry about the inevitable. Just enjpy your camera

CoreyAllen · Sep 21, 2006

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

jewson37 · Sep 21, 2006

Dont know..Dont care
Just enjoying taking pics till it goes wrong...!
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trojkat · Sep 21, 2006

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?

Siafu said:
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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http://www.flickr.com/photos/58368129@N00/

InitZero · Sep 21, 2006

trojkat said:
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

trojkat · Sep 21, 2006

Some threads from Canon forum

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1019&message=18696774&q=shutter+and+life+and+30d&qf=m

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1031&thread=18529567&page=1

and one more optimistic

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat.asp?forum=1019&message=18461429&q=shutter+and+life+and+30d&qf=m

The bottom line is that nobody really knows for sure. But probably one has to be unlucky to take less than 50 000 shots.

trojkat · Sep 21, 2006

Siafu said:
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.

raymondox · Sep 21, 2006

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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flakko · Sep 21, 2006

If you do a search you will find many postings by the shutterbaters bragging how many times they have pushed the shutter.

flakko · Sep 21, 2006

CoreyAllen said:
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...

paperorplastic · Sep 21, 2006

Well said.

D50 shutter life

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