How many shutters in a year - like as in how many replacements? or how many shutter clicks?
As far as replacements, maybe one a year - actually less. I've had 5 shutters replaced across 3 bodies in 4 years - with body life's of 5yrs,4yrs and 1yr.
As far as shutter clicks, that's easily over 500,000 per year among all the bodies. And in my company, I utilize several shooters who all do the same thing for me, getting well over 2 million pix per year.
Ironically, one of my shooters had his camera die at our event this weekend. We originally thought it was the shutter that went - even though he had it replaced sometime last year with around 600,000 clicks on it. Turns out his mirror box is what tanked. Current image count - at the point of failure:
Hammy wrote:
Sorry to raise any blood pressure in the converstation - I guess I've just gotten numb to even thinking about shutter count and was trying to assure all that its really ok that you don't know about the accuations
Don't worry, I'm an amater and I might clock 10k actuations in a year and I couldn't give a rats about those numbers either. I went on a trip with a mate recently and he wanted me to download his photos to my notebook between days. No probs. I asked what he wanted to call his photos and he asked what I meant. I said you can name your photos as you download them, you know, like a date and description / location and he said if I do that, how do I know what photo I'm up to? Meh... whatever... it's a tool and it will do what I want it to do. If it breaks, I'll get it fixed, if it's fubar, I'll upgrade.
