I was curious about your comment that you sell cameras at the 100K
shots fired point. It also sounds like you use a LOT of cameras.
I've heard the 1D shutter is good for 150K shots and that it is
replacable for about $300. Do they also have a tune up? Say
replacing flash card contact surfaces, environmental seals etc...
From all your experience I was curious what kinds of failures you
have seen and why you settled on 100K shots as the time to dump a
camera.
I've seen what has happened with my P&S digicam. I have to pop the
flash up a few times before it flashes. It occassionally gets into
a bad mode where I have to drop the battery out of it. At 2.5K
shots the sensor develeoped a hot pixel dead center of the frame.
The coloring has worn off in a number of places. The diopter knob
broke off.
As someone who expects to average 5K-10K photos a year, I can't
expect to ever wear one of these out, but I was curious what you
have seen from the cumulative manyears of camera use at your
company.
BTW, I am selling my film bodies if anyone will still be interested
after reading what I have to say...
The EOS 1n film body was "tested to" last 100,000 cycles. This
means that this is aopparently when they decided that it may not be
able to work properly after that point.... Anyway, On my first EOS
1N, I cataloged my many negatgive books filled with file pages of
B&W film that I shot for a local newspaper......+ my many ringed
binders full of color film that I have filled with color neg
film......and my many boxes of slide film in card holders........
I counted over 6,000 rolls of film that I used my 1n body for
nearly entirely for. These were added together by 36
exposures......some rolls I rewound early so I figured perhaps
5,500 rolls. This was before I bought a second EOS 1n film body
too... I lost track of which camera shot which film after I bought
two of them.....which I['ve owned for 3 years now....and hqave shot
an additional 2,400 rolls of film on... so, lets say add another
1,000 to be conservative.. Ok..... 1,000 + 5,500 = 6,500 x 36 =
234,000 shots.
My D30 I added up all the images from my old computer that I used
to upload pictures on.....I had some twouble with my D30...the hot
shoe was loose in the corner...and didn't fire all the
time.....which didn't matter all that much because I shoot mostly
with studio lighting hooked up to a radio slave 4i set up...and
simply popp[ed in a sinc cord to ity aqnd stuck the other end into
the PC socket......until that thing just stopped working one
day.....and I had to send it in for a repair........and I bought my
10D. I got it back from the shop and they replaced the shutter as
well......apparently, the shitter on the D30 is only "tested to"
50,000 cycles... not the 80,000 that I spent an entire day adding
up.....counting up all the images in each and every single
file..... I wish I wrote down the exact number.....it was amazing!
So, the moral of the story is "Tested to" is a VERY conservative
number! I'd bet you it is AT LEAST 1/2 of what the actual
performance number really is!
So, if you have to get the shutter replaced for $300.00..........my
goodness!! Big deal! ;-)
Oh, here is whaqt my 1n cameras look like today...
http://www.pbase.com/Greco/1n the one on the second page is the
oldest one!
JP
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