With my 1Ds II shutter. This is actuation # 200,000. Shutter appears to still be perfect. (that stuff on the bottom is her coloring book way out of focus, not a shutter bounce.) Let's hope for another 200,000.
I think it's mad not to change the shutter when it's due. I blew my first 5D shutter and it took the sensor with it as it exploded. That is a far far more expensive repair. Get the shutter fixed BEFORE you have to.
brainiac wrote:
I think it's mad not to change the shutter when it's due. I blew my first 5D shutter and it took the sensor with it as it exploded. That is a far far more expensive repair. Get the shutter fixed BEFORE you have to.
Those Canons are fairly rugged. I have a 4 year old Rebel XT body that is used for construction progress photos. Last night I shot the re-opening of a mall shot about 1500 exps. Minimum 250 exp/week - well over 100,000 exposures in total, which creates havoc in the file library with duplicate file names- years apart. Sensor fried about 2 years ago -replaced by Canon. Mirror and shutter still going strong.
brainiac wrote:
I think it's mad not to change the shutter when it's due. I blew my first 5D shutter and it took the sensor with it as it exploded. That is a far far more expensive repair. Get the shutter fixed BEFORE you have to.
Can you elaborate on your shutter exploding experience?
Was there any signs of it going out before this happened?
What was the shooting setting when it happend? (If you remember)
I thrashed a DR for about 80K clicks until the shutter died. Despite being out of warranty, Canon only charged me $180 to replace it, the shutter box, a printed circuit board or two, and cleaned it up when they were done.
OceanView wrote:
Was there any signs of it going out before this happened?
No.
>What was the shooting setting when it happend? (If you remember)
I had accidentally set it to explode mode.
Seriously, I was using it and suddenly the shutter sound changed a little. I didn't think much of it and shot a few more shots. I noticed that they didn't look right. I took off the lens to look inside and saw the blades all tangled and bent. Luckily it happened on the last day of my 5 week honeymoon in Asia. When I sent the camera to Canon UK they explained that the shutter replacement was about 200 GBP, but that fixing the scratched filter entailed sensor replacement, which was 800 GBP. I argued a lot, and eventually they took pity on me and charged a lot less, but they needn't have.
So the moral is, replace your shutter before it makes your camera worthless.
EB-1 wrote:
Since one of our family cars has exceeded the warranty period we should rebuild the engine when it is still working fine? I don't think so.
EBH
Not the warranty but if it's the time to replace the timing belt, you have to do it unless you want it to go and take the valves with it.
EB-1 wrote:
Since one of our family cars has exceeded the warranty period we should rebuild the engine when it is still working fine? I don't think so.
EBH
That what we have to do on helicopters. It's called 'preventive maintenance'.
This is actuation # 200,000. Shutter appears to still be perfect. (that stuff on the bottom is her coloring book way out of focus, not a shutter bounce.) Let's hope for another 200,000.
