What's considered high shutter actuations on a DSLR camera?

11 years 11 months ago #227806 by Martin
This might be a moving target. Cars IMHO are high miles when over 15,000 miles per year. I actually think that is figure is what the banks use. So with a camera, what would be considered high shutter actuations?


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11 years 11 months ago #227831 by John Landolfi
It depends on the model. A Coolpix will be getting old when a D4 is reaching puberty.


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11 years 11 months ago #227888 by Henry Peach
Look for the camera in question here olegkikin.com/shutterlife/
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11 years 11 months ago #228050 by Martin
Did I ask that correctly? Let's say a camera had 40,000 clicks. Would you consider that highly used? Or would something like 100,000 be considered high use?

I'm going to check out that link, thanks for sharing.


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11 years 11 months ago #228154 by Henry Peach

Martin wrote: Let's say a camera had 40,000 clicks. Would you consider that highly used? Or would something like 100,000 be considered high use?


I would say that 40,000 photos is a lot of photos, but whether the shutter is likely to be wearing out or not depends on what camera we are talking about. For some cameras 100,000 clicks is a lot, and may be near the end of the shutter's lifespan. Other shutters will make it to 1,000,000 clicks and beyond.
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11 years 11 months ago #228696 by Wyrick Photography
Yeah, I would say once you get creeping over 40,000 you have some miles on your camera.

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