Re: Shutter lifetime?

Pål Gunnar Ellingsen <[email protected]>
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Hi

This is not about compact cameras, but slightly more expensive ones.

We've been running Nikon D7000 for many years, and the shutter is what
breaks, but not before 200 000 - 300 000 images (2 times the amount Nikon
says).
Now we've switched to the Sony a7s and we've taken more than a million
images with it in silent mode (only using global electronic shutter).
In general I would recommend an electronic shutter if you want millions of
images.


Kind regards

Pål Ellingsen
Post Doc in space physics (for the Birkeland Center for Space Science)
Dept. of Geophysics
The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)
P.O. Box 156
N-9171 Longyearbyen
Svalbard
Norway


On 15 February 2017 at 02:16, Mark Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:46 PM, pprovaz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > just wanted to ask, if anyone there has any experience with shutter
> lifetime
> > of normal compact cameras. I am planning to setup an automated 3D stereo
> > time-lapse using two Canon Powershot SX100's, so just thinking how long
> > could they operate until shutter failure...
>
> It's just a single data point, but my SX100IS is still going after
> more than a hundred thousand shots.  (My PowerShot A520 only lasted
> about 80,000, but it wasn't the shutter that failed, it was the USB
> connector.)
>
> --
> Mark
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