I am planning on selling a 1DMkII.
I am not the original owner & bought it in the summer for an assignment.
It works fine & shows no shutter issues/symptoms.
Appearance wise it looks pretty good, not beat up like many 7/8 year old bodies.
When I bought it, I checked the shutter count with CanCount on my net book.
It had showed about 58k clicks
Put it up on Craigslist where a buyer asked how many clicks.
I checked again with a new CanCount & it shows 188xxx clicks!
Check the old reading & its still ~60k.
So I will disclose this anomaly & ask a lower price.
I have looked around at other MkII prices and see some asking >$1000 without a count
& others asking $800 with a new shutter
I was asking $525 but now will probably drop to $450?
What would you do and what would you ask or better yet, what would you pay for
a high count, working body?
BTW, I have a FM B&S account so this is not a sneaky sell posting!
Shutter count is way overrated here and in other forums. There are so many other things in the body that can be bad or old. And that cost more to replace also. Why bother so much about 5% of the camera and nothing about the other 95%?
No one can seriously expect a camera that is old and have been replaced four times to have a low shutter count either. Just sell to somebody that have a realistic view about the importance of shutter count
You should use 1dcount to check 1dseries actuation. The difference between 1dcount and cancount is the rollover counter (each rollover increment = 65535). You want to know how many rollover your shutter already has...i am sure you have more than 60K. It should be 60K plus x*65535 that cancount might have missed.
mttran wrote:
Dan, i would keep it as a backup. what can you buy w/ 400-500 nowaday - all junky that takes oof in action shots
QFT.
These prices you guys quote are just crazy. To think that it's possible, somewhere, to get a 1D Mark II for $500 Guess that for me, it'd be cheaper to get a plane ticket and fly over to the US than shop domestically.
I would leave it as backup, as mttran wrote. I swear by my 1D Mark II N even though I all but botched up a recent low light shoot with it. It's still miles better than anything you can buy with $500 (a Rebel? a 28/1.8 lens and a few beers?)
I've got 2 low shutter count 1d mk 2's (~35k) which I just can't bring myself to sell for what they currently fetch. I'm waiting until a museum wants them
Lars Johnsson wrote:
Shutter count is way overrated here and in other forums. There are so many other things in the body that can be bad or old. And that cost more to replace also. Why bother so much about 5% of the camera and nothing about the other 95%?
No one can seriously expect a camera that is old and have been replaced four times to have a low shutter count either. Just sell to somebody that have a realistic view about the importance of shutter count
+1 Lots of other things that I would worry about other then shutter count.
Guess that for me, it'd be cheaper to get a plane ticket and fly over to the US than shop domestically. 