Sep 26, 2011, 06:15
Stimulated by Nikon Rumors website, I decided to check out my shutter count using exiftool (a downloadable utility that shows the entire metafile in your RAW file) and compared it to the camera-specific stats on this website http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/. @ 57 000+ clicks, my camera should still be good for another couple of years (things seem to start to go wrong with the shutter of D300 at around 100 000 clicks). Of course other things could go wrong. Still, this is a pretty durable camera, it seems. The bad thing is that i have no excuse to sell it.
Interesting - Nikon D3 - a pro camera seems to have a shutter with about the same life expectancy as D300, although the database is more robust for high click numbers. Also interesting - data for D700 suggest that the shutter is more durable than either D300 or D3 - i wonder if this is real or a survey anomaly.
Some other forums (using personal experience or anecdotal info) suggest that Nikons should last more than 100 K clicks and they may well. The database is built using voluntary data contribution and the people contributing the data may visit the sight and get interested because their camera failed.
Interesting - Nikon D3 - a pro camera seems to have a shutter with about the same life expectancy as D300, although the database is more robust for high click numbers. Also interesting - data for D700 suggest that the shutter is more durable than either D300 or D3 - i wonder if this is real or a survey anomaly.
Some other forums (using personal experience or anecdotal info) suggest that Nikons should last more than 100 K clicks and they may well. The database is built using voluntary data contribution and the people contributing the data may visit the sight and get interested because their camera failed.
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