Shutter Life Question

Shutter Life

  • I think twice about taking lots of shots.

    Votes: 10 10.9%

  • I snap away at every oppurtunity.

    Votes: 82 89.1%
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Most DSLRs have a shutter life of around 100,00.
Does this affect your photography in any way?

Do you try to minimise it so resale value is higher?
or
Do you take less shots to preserve shutter life?
or
Do you not care and snap away at every opportunity?

I have to say I care about the shutter life and try my best not to take useless shots.
 
It doesn't affect how I use my camera. I bought it to use it and that's what I'm going to do.

You might get hit by a bus (God forbid) and if your sutter count is 4 what have you saved?

Please use your camera before a few capacitors on the circuit boad dry out and the electronics just stop working.
 
tc4 said:
I have to say I care about the shutter life and try my best not to take useless shots.
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Why? The difference in resale value between say a 2000 click D300 and a 42000 one is only something like £50 at most.......
 
I always think twice. If I know a shot won't produce the results I want then I just save the camera from wasted actuations. I try to use burst mode as little as I can if I can help it.
 
DemiLion said:
...and you can always have the shutter replaced for about £200-300.
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For £300 wouldn't it be better to put it towards a newer body? If my 450D shutter died I certainly wouldn't be paying £200-300 for a new shutter.
 
I don't really think twice when I know the shots can turn out good. If I feel I am going to take a load of snapshots I stop myself just to save me editing that junk. ...but when it comes to let's say a job offer of taking 1000 pics for £50 that's a big no no... I'd rather it failed taking some silly snapshot instead.
 
DemiLion said:
...and you can always have the shutter replaced for about £200-300.
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... that is so presuming the failing shutter didn't damage the AA filter. Somebody at Canon told this to me
 
I bought my camera for me, not the next person, so I take as many shots as I damn well please :)
 
tc4 said:
For £300 wouldn't it be better to put it towards a newer body? If my 450D shutter died I certainly wouldn't be paying £200-300 for a new shutter.
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Ah but on a 7D, 5D you would lol ..

I snap away. Waste shots but don't really care I bought it to use so when it breaks I'll just fix it :)
 
snap away :)
most of the time you will be upgrading to a newer body before the old one wears out
My 40D is on about 60K and I am now using a 550D but kept the 40D as a second body
pete
 
If you're not going to use the camera - why have it?! Nikon Pro bodies are probably good for 300,000 clicks.
 
I voted for I think twice before taking lots of shots - but that has nothing to do with the shutter life (I use high speed burst on occaision), and more to do with the fact that I spent 25 years shooting film and the fact that I still think about my shots like I did with film and shoot sparingly.
 
Once upon a time there was no way of knowing how many shutter activations a camera had. How on earth did people cope?
 
Life's too short to worry about shutter actuations.

I turn down the machine gun rate on mine when it's not needed & I like to think I don't waste shots but I wouldn't say it's because I'm bothered about saving the shutter.

Just use your camera and enjoy it.
 
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The great fascination with the shutter count on digital cameras amuses the heck out of me.
Everytime someone talks to me about shutter count I think of how many film cameras there must be out there with shutter counts in the millions.
 
I got my camera to use as often as possible. If that means i get trigger happy so be it. So long as m y glass does not ware out I'm happy.
 
Totally agree, click away, worry about it later. I shoot mainly birds, and my keeper rate is something like 10%. I'd much rather have a pile of shots that are good and a burnt out shutter than a series of not-quites and a camera worth two hundred quid more.
 
50k plus shots on my 40D when the shutter broke, but it was under warranty and replaced it with a 50D. I've now put 60k plus shots through that and if it breaks I'll get it fixed and keep as a second body and get a 7D. :)

I've bought the camera to use, not admire. To me it's a tool.
 
It would be having to sort through loads of files that would put me off being totally trigger happy rather than wearing out the shutter.

Each shot is 25MB that has to be transferred and stored then sorted, so I don't want huge numbers of shots every time i use the camera.
 
boliston said:
Keep a mental note of each click while i'm out on a shoot then record it (together with cumulative) in my diary when I get home.....simples ;)
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You are kidding, right?

The goblin said:
I'm always curious how you know what the shutter count is?
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Nikon users can find it using Adobe Bridge, Canon users not so easily, depending on the model used there are various bits of software out there to decode the part of the exif that has shutter count in it. Some models of Canon just can't be found out without sending the camera to Canon, ie the 5D1.
 
If I want to worry about every depression of the shutter, I go out with a camera loaded with 120 film. 12 shots to a roll, £4 a roll to process, another £4 for the film itself... It certainly focuses the mind. :lol:
 
I'm another one who just guns it! I've just acquired a new Canon 7D, I think close to 300 shots have been me demo'ing the 8fps to people :lol: Also, there will be a lot of wasted ones from my attempts to track the kittens running around in the garden - possibly the ultimate AF test? :p
 
The goblin said:
Lol. In my case it's a fast moving now camera shy toddler!!
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Ah, I suppose that's where cats come in handy... As long as there's pine cones for me to use as attraction devices, I can shoot all day :lol: Kids get bored quickly!
 
I'm just hoping I'll last as long as my camera. Life's too short to worry about shutter actuations. :cuckoo:
 
These shutter actuations only came about cause the damn camera makers recorded em for more features, next thing they will do is measure how much you have focused, wearing out the focus mechanism or how many photons have hit the main element. If you worry about, keep the camera in a box and dust it off occationally, not too often, as my camera is limited to 100,000 dust off's:bonk:
 
As people have said I brought my d90 to use as a camera not to sit there look at the box and wait for the right conditions to get it out.

Click away the only way I will learn
 
Then I started using 350D I was thinking twice but later just started to snap without thinking. It's like paintball: you save balls for few minutes & later just go full blast without counting :)
 
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