Shutter Actuations

[Cynergy]

Just a quick question if someone could tell me the answer ?

I've heard and read that the Nikon D80 bodies are good for 50,000 shutter actuation but what happens after that ? Does the shutter need replacing or servicing ?

[IanC_UK]

its likely the shutter will fail at or about that number of actuations, some last a lot longer, some can go a lot earlier !!! (and this goes for all DSLR) and yes its a matter of getting the shutter replaced, it can work out more cost efficient to just buy a new body though, depends how many shots you take a year and how long the original lasts. Depends ont he orginal cost and how much the shutter costs, not sure on Nikon proces but think its about 200 quid for a canon one ?

[Vinny]

How do you tell how many actuations your camera has?

[IanC_UK]

Is tricky, on 1 Series Canons you can use a utility called cancount, use it on a picture and it can work it out for you, others are a little more complicated, some show the number of actuations in teh EXIF others count it up for you.

www.soens.de or here http://www.enjoyyourcamera.com/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=cancount&x=0&y=0 is 11 euros though

[Blue Moon 7]

There is a free piece of software that you can download called camera clicks. It downloads in seconds. You then take a pic and put your CF / SD card into the computer and it tells you how many shutter actuations the camera has done.

My old D70 did 80,000 + and 18 months later is going strong with its new owner. I think that camera was estimated to do 50,000.

Hope this helps.

Chris

[Ian T]

The software is called Preview Extractor. I forget where to get it, but it's free to download. As Chris says, take an unedited photo straight from the memory card, and it'll tell you how many shutter actuations had taken place at that point.

[Galaxy66]

Is this just software for Nikon users?

[RogDen31]

there is also opanda exif viewer from opanda.com for all makes,

[a1ex2001]

there is also opanda exif viewer from opanda.com for all makes,

Correct me if I'm wrong but that won't tell you the shutter actuations on a canon camera will it? As far as I'm aware the only way to acurately tell the shutter count on anything other than a 1 series canon is to send it off to them. All the Methods I've seen reported tend to produce as many inacurate results as acurate.