How many shutter actuations do you REALLY get from a camera?

[jtra]

I just checked the exif data. The final image I took tonight is number 300,9726. This D800 was purchased in May of 2013.

Good Lord! You average >400 photos a day? Do must shoot a lot of timelapses(?)

My wife's D750 just went back to Nikon due to a black shadow/bar/stripe across the lower 20% of the pictures (intermittently about 40% of the time for the past week or so). It previously went to Nikon a couple of months ago for the ERR message and refusal to focus. That time Nikon replaced the shutter mechanism and made various adjustments. I just checked her last photo before sending it off, and her shutter count was 109,000 in 13 months. She used CH a lot for bird photography. We'd never considered the shot count life of a shutter before.

My D750 started failing in similar way and then shutter broke completely at 12145 clicks, about 6 months of use.
See details here https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4037492

I entered my count at shutter life DB here https://olegkikin.com/shutterlife/
you can use it to get idea about shutter life distribution.

 

[mais51]

... that's when it started to be twitchy and the mirror sometimes stucked up. That was after being beaten up madly (freezing rain of Iceland, african desert sand, Canadian cold temperature and tropical humidity)

Fixed it by replacing the whole shutter. Should be good for another 100K-ish shots

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Most people replace their cameras well before that limit - I could go on using my D300s forever only if the low light performance of the camera can keep up with its modern siblings