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Lol Cheryl. I heard about one fellow that managed to squeeze 5502 out of his.
I wouldn't worry about it too much Mike. Being a mechanical device it is obviously impossible to say when it will break, I have heard of some going at 9000 and some lasting to 70K. My 300D has around twice as many actuations as your camera and is still ok, so I'd say you have a while to go yet.
The 1-series Canons have a life of about 200,000.
Canon do not quote for other models but there are certainly some pros who have posted on professional forums (e.g. Rob Galbraith) that they have have 10D's which have managed 100,000 shutter actuations and are still going strong.
Mike,
I've heard of many photographers who have had well over 100,000 frames from their 10D so with these figures in mind you've got LOADS of life left in yours yet.
The shutter replacement cost on a 10D is around the 200 mark,so although fairly expensive compared to the cameras present value,it's still a worthwhile repair.
Justin
25-45k is the average shutter life of the 10D as quoted to me by a technician.
I've got close to 100k out of one and 37k our of another so the first one must have been one of the small minority.
I've heard that 25-35k is probably about the normal time between failures from people that I know.
Shutter replacement was less than 150 quid inc VAT IIRC and you get a service with that as well.
Quote: If im right in saying the canon 300D shutter is plastic, where as the Canon 10D is surposed to be a semi-pro camera and is a metal shutter, i think. so the life should be better ?
From what I have heard, and also by looking at them, (helped clean a friends 10D for them) the shutters are the same, but the mirrors are different. Also the specs are the same, sync speeds etc.
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