![]() ![]() The Nikon D850 and the Lumix S5 both claim 200,000. But that’s still modest when compared with its closest-priced competition from other brands. For example, the 5D Mark IV has an advertised shutter life of 150,000 actuations. ![]() The Canon 5D Mark IV - Is the shutter life acceptable? Higher End Cameras Have Longer Lifespans For beginners who typically shoot hundreds of photographs every time they go out, that maybe only a couple of years’ usage a disgusting waste of our planet's resources. Most consumer end cameras have low life expectancies, some as little as 100,000 actuations, and in real life may be achieving less than that. With the ever-growing awareness of Earth's limited resources, we should be calling out the manufacturers to address this issue. If you care about the planet, then it is something you should challenge with your camera's manufacturer. Is the relatively low shutter count on cameras is built-in obsolescence? This is the morally dubious practice of knowingly building goods to fail, so we must buy new ones when they die. Although better than older models that were rated to only 50,000, this is still a measly amount, especially considering beginners tend to shoot more frames. Politicians are not the only ones who employ fake news to win votes.Ĭanon EOS 80D The life expectancy of this and many consumer cameras is 100,000. These sorts of dirty tricks do happen online just look at the trolls who attack articles criticizing major brands brand, or false accounts that praise certain manufacturers and retailers. It’s also worth remembering that an open database like that is prone to abuse it would be easy for a manufacturer to sabotage them to skew the figures by submitting entries in favor of their own brand and against another. I am deliberately not linking to those databases because their results are too easily faked, but, if you are interested, they are easy enough to find if you search for them, Did all those Canon 5D Mark IVs fail near 81,000 or 162,000? With a life expectancy of 150,000, one hopes it is nearer the latter figure, but there is no telling. One group's cameras within ranges as wide as 80,000 actuations, which isn’t helpful. Other online databases exist, but they all have their failings. It could be that the one failure was a freak, or that the two that were still running were the exceptions. If one camera out of the three recorded of a particular model is shown to fail, that doesn’t reflect the true pattern across every one of that model sold. Furthermore, the low number of entries for some models make the results meaningless there were insufficient cameras entered to be statistically significant. Oleg Kikin’s database tried to tackle that issue, but that now appears obsolete with newer models missing. ![]() It is a challenge to get definitive data about how long cameras last in the real world. What are the chances of your current camera still working in twenty-years, let alone eighty?Īs digital photography has been commercially available to the masses for over 20-years, will modern cameras hold up to the test of time? As Indiana Jones said, "It's not the years, it's the mileage." It's the amount of use that will cause a camera to fail, not its age. I hope I am in as good repair when I am that old. Although a bit tatty, this old Zeiss “coffee can” TLR was still going strong and took great pictures. ![]()
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