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99 Frame EPL6 Time Lapse Function - Surely Olympus are having a laugh!

Started Mar 29, 2015 | Discussions thread
uRebel Rob Senior Member • Posts: 1,537
Re: 99 Frame EPL6 Time Lapse Function - Surely Olympus are having a laugh!

secretworld wrote:

Yeah you are right, I think they realised that without an electronic shutter, the shutter would break within warranty if people would use that option a lot . In theory you could only do 50 1000 shot time-lapses before failure....and maybe shorter as the contentious shooting does put serious strain on a live view shutter (close-open-close-open). Pana bodies use the electronic shutter AFAIK.

(A little late but) no, my GX7 can use either the mechanical or e-shutter for time lapse. I understand why most people would want to use the e-shutter in most cases to preserve the mechanical shutter's life, but ... With all the time lapse I've done on my Nikon D5100, it's about 140k on its 100k rated shutter and still working.

OP, now that my GX7 has 9999 max frames per time lapse, my D5100's 999 seems low. Not that go over 2500 often, and 1000 is usually enough, but still, I now usually use an intervalometer on my D5100 so I can go that high. When I first saw 99 frames on a camera (might have been the E-PL6, there is another with the same 99 frames IIRC) a year or two ago, I just shook my head. But if the shutter is only rated for 50000, it won't last too long with lots of time lapse. Even if it lasts 40% longer than its rating like my D5100 has so far.

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