Your shutter is probably going to wear out when the manufacturer says it will. But my experience with wearing out a double-digit number of shutters while shooting timelapses in a controlled environment suggests you really shouldn’t expect that.
Some people probably do get lucky with a camera that far outlasts the rated lifetime. Eventually I switched to a camera that lets me shoot without the shutter and that obviously solved the issue. I used to have to send one in for a shutter repair every couple of months. They still die right when they reach the rated shutter count despite having everything in their favor. The shutter count is read directly from USB or Wi-Fi connected Canons, and from image files for.
#DOES SHUTTER COUNT MATTER ON MIRRORLESS PC#
That’s in the most controlled possible environment, because these cameras are inside a heated/air conditioned plexiglass dome and running on mains power instead of batteries, mounted to brackets and literally never touched until they need a shutter replacement. Do not connect the camera to the PC at this moment. And I can tell you my cameras have all died within about 10,000 clicks of the rated lifetime. That’s a click every 10 seconds, any time the sun is down, 7 days a week. I run a timelapse camera that shoots the aurora all night, every night. Even older cameras are still good enough and have high enough resolution for 4K timelapse. - Education and inspiration for visual storytellers Does shutter count matter on mirrorless cameras Photofocus Does shutter count matter. That’s another trick I learned from John for this article.
#DOES SHUTTER COUNT MATTER ON MIRRORLESS PRO#
Making a shutter (and mirror assembly) that can do 1/8000th or even 1/16000th 8-12 FPS and last for several hundred thousand cycles (like Nikon pro and prosumer bodies) is in fact. In many other situations, you drag your camera around buses, trains, planes, you may bump it or drop it – and things like this are more likely to kill it, Matthew suggests.Īnother thing you can do, if you shoot timelapse, is to keep your old bodies even when you upgrade. A completely different matter is the fact that the type of shutter in the X-Pro 1 isn't necessarily comparable to a (D)SLR shutter. Fewer than 10,000 shots on a camera that is 2-5 years old is very low, with the normal. When you shoot timelapse, your camera clicks away, one photo at a time, in a controlled environment so to say. When browsing, low shutter counts often indicate less heavily-used items. And yep, they still work, too!Īs a timelapse photographer, Matthew has a theory of why this type of photography may not actually be that harmful to your camera. My DIYP buddy John adds that he has a pair of Nikon D100 bodies he bought back in 2002 with over a million actuations on them.
My old Nikon D3000 has over 500,000 actuations and still works just fine (although I almost never use it anymore). And no, they’re not dead – all of them still work. For those cameras that currently can take pictures without using their shutter, they still add to the shutter count (I am not absolutely sure that every Continue Reading All mirrorless cameras have shutters, they just don’t have mirrors. Matthew has had a few cameras so far, and all of them have exceeded the number of shutter actuations they’re rated at.
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