Post your shutter counts (highest wins)

Darrell wrote: My old Nikon D70 had 38,000 and I expect it will be working for a long time yet..

My D70 suffered a broken shutter at around 52,000. I still miss that body.

bhowdy wrote:

bhowdy wrote: Canon 1D Mark III ... Shutter count at the last Canon cleaning was 113,710, probably 400-500 more since then. I don't use this body as much any longer, it has become one of my backup bodies .... but it has been a great camera .... Still Is!!!

As others already stated the MarkIII is rated for 300,000 actuations. I get a shutter count when I send it to Canon for cleaning. This model is one of the infamous "blue dot" Mark III's that had a boatload of early problems. I had the original shutter replaced by Canon, just because they were doing it for free .... Never had a minute of problem with it. Any bad photos it has produced were due to the idiot pushing the shutter button!

Wasn't that whole module replaced? I know the mirror became misaligned because the foam would heat up and expand. (I had a 1d mark III as well).

I would be curious what is the record number of shutters a camera has fired?

JoAnne Muzila wrote: I would be curious what is the record number of shutters a camera has fired?

Film or digital? My Pentax MX had way more actuations than any digital I have had. My D300 is at 10,904.

Film or digital? My Pentax MX had way more actuations than any digital I have had. My D300 is at 10,904.[/quote]

That is amazing! I would not want to have had developed all those rolls of film...

Darrell wrote: Film or digital? My Pentax MX had way more actuations than any digital I have had. My D300 is at 10,904.

That is amazing! I would not want to have had developed all those rolls of film...[/quote]

Yeah but I shot with it from 76" when they first came out till 2002. So it was 26 years old when I retired it, and actually still works. I hate processing film which is why it will stay in a box for now till I decide where I want to put my old cameras on display. I will never get rid of it because it was my first brand new camera, and it has the 50mm that came with it as the kit lens.

So how does Nikon and Canon actually test the shutter? Do they have a mechanical 'finger' that just holds down the shutter button till the camera blows up?

I bet they have an cable release pressed down Seriously I don't know. Bumping this thread for an answer.

bhowdy wrote: Canon 1D Mark III ... Shutter count at the last Canon cleaning was 113,710, probably 400-500 more since then. I don't use this body as much any longer, it has become one of my backup bodies .... but it has been a great camera .... Still Is!!!

I think you won this race

I don't know where my DSLRs are at, but I make 30,000+ exposures a year just at weddings. I might get close to 50K exposures a year on my main body.

Henry do you shoot film too?

I wouldn't begin to know how many times shutters on any of the cameras in my collection have ben used, too many to count! I have one that's almost 100 years old, interesting to think how many owners it's had and how many photos it's taken in that many years.

icepics wrote: I wouldn't begin to know how many times shutters on any of the cameras in my collection have ben used, too many to count! I have one that's almost 100 years old, interesting to think how many owners it's had and how many photos it's taken in that many years.

Oh how cool it would be to trace the different hands that camera took over 100 years. How many cameras do you own?

Moossmann wrote: So how does Nikon and Canon actually test the shutter? Do they have a mechanical 'finger' that just holds down the shutter button till the camera blows up?

If it is like any other manufacturing test, then they have a test bed. They mount the shutter mechanism to it and it automatically trips the shutter continuously at a rapid speed, they probably have a laser or light beam that trips the counter, and they run it till it fails. They will do this a different point of the production run for QC. Granted what I said may not be totally right but it could be close.

Has anyone had a shutter go bad?