DSLR/ Camera shutter lifespan
I just found a good website on checking your camera shutter lifespan. For your information, your camera will not last forever and will eventually die!
Check your shutter lifespan expectancy at this website.
In there, select your camera model and simply look at the “Survival estimation” graph. For example, this is the graph for my Canon 400D.
The survival rate for mine is 87.9% for 23k shots.
Checking your Canon DSLR shutter count
Canon does not provide you the shutter directly. You need to do some calculation. It is easy.
Check your last image file sequence. For example, IMG_3300.jpg. And, it resides in folder named 902CANON. Ignore the ‘9′ in the front of the folder. Take the remaining number and multiply it with a thousand.
The total shutter count would be 20000 + 3300 = 23300
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4 Responses to “DSLR/ Camera shutter lifespan”
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Hannah Rika Villasis a.k.a. Flair Candy on September 9th, 2008
really? wahhh bad news @_@… say how bout for a digicam? say my panasonic dmc tz5?
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Hugo Lim on September 10th, 2008
hmmmm.. i think there is a lifespan for all cams but maybe for shutter failure. just look at the website i put in the post. from there, you can know the life expectancy of a particular model :)
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DSLR Camera Man on May 14th, 2009
I thought it should last forever.
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Hugo Lim Reply:
May 15th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Hi there,
I don’t think so. Shutter is some mechanical mechanism that drives your camera. Of such mechanical thingy, it has wear and tear. So do like our car, it has moving parts in there that needs maintenance.
Thanks for commenting
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