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02/17/2005 04:19:19 PM · #1 |
How Many Pictures can you take with a digital rebel before it dies?
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02/17/2005 04:20:58 PM · #2 |
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02/17/2005 04:21:57 PM · #3 |
| mine's got 52266 clicks on it since 3/20/04... |
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02/17/2005 04:22:13 PM · #4 |
I don't know... Do they???... will it??
Originally posted by vince31874:
They die? |
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02/17/2005 04:25:13 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Corwyn:
How Many Pictures can you take with a digital rebel before it dies? |
Probably more then the licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop :P
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02/17/2005 04:40:25 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by skiprow:
mine's got 52266 clicks on it since 3/20/04... |
OK... how many pictures can you take with a Digital Rebel before your finger falls off? Sheesh. |
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02/17/2005 04:45:01 PM · #7 |
| I think after about 5 years the ccd starts to make red like a orangish color. But probably before then the camera will start to not perform as well which is why they have warranties |
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02/17/2005 04:49:26 PM · #8 |
I think canons official numbers are:
300D: 50,000
10D/20D: 150,000
1D/1Ds: 200,000 or 250,000
this is when the shutter will go out and have to be replaced. about a $200 fix.
I am not positive on these numbers but I think they are pretty close. besides they are just estimates, and skiprow has broken that already!
edited to fix name...oops!
Message edited by author 2005-02-17 16:55:08. |
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02/17/2005 04:49:57 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by LEONJR:
I think after about 5 years the ccd starts to make red like a orangish color. But probably before then the camera will start to not perform as well which is why they have warranties |
I have never heard of the reds going bad on a ccd and would be a bit surprised if it did. |
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02/17/2005 04:53:41 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by aaronb532:
...they are just estimates, and scalvert has broken that already! |
Not me- I'm only at 24,000 or so. Skiprow had the big numbers, although I think he just sits in front of the TV and pushes the shutter out of habit. |
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02/17/2005 04:54:35 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by scottwilson:
I have never heard of the reds going bad on a ccd and would be a bit surprised if it did. |
I'd be suprised if the rebels ccd went bad also, considering it uses a cmos, not a ccd! |
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02/17/2005 04:55:08 PM · #12 |
I haven't seen MTBF numbers from any camera maker, and even if you do they're hard to translate into a user experience. If you buy disks with a 1,000,000 hour MTBF you may experience a failure in 2 weeks, or not at all. Stats like that are meaningless unless you have a suitable population.
My take is that with good care and feeding a quality digital camera should typically last longer than you'll want to retain it unless you are shooting thousands of images per week. In that case, you should be using a higher-end camera as they are designed for deeper duty cycles.
I dont' think the CCD is your worry either... The shutter is a mechanical component, while the sensor is solid-state. Mechanical components always die faster than solid state.
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02/17/2005 04:56:38 PM · #13 |
This link has some information about ccd life span -//photography-on-the.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-289.html
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02/17/2005 04:59:33 PM · #14 |
The answer is a bit like how many miles you can get out of a car. If you change the oil and service it regularly, it will last longer than if you don't. The notion that the 10D will get 3 times the life of the 300D is sort of silly since they both have the same horrid weather seal, and dust is the great enemy of delicate moving parts.
But if you keep it dust free, blow out the stuff that does get in, and try not to kick it down the stairs, I might last a bit longer than the official party line. When the 300d first came out the general agreement on DPR was that the shutter was good for 10,000 activations. I have heard of very few failures at those low numbers, or at any numbers.
PS 27,600 so far
Message edited by author 2005-02-17 17:02:20. |
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02/17/2005 05:32:06 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by LEONJR:
This link has some information about ccd life span -//photography-on-the.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-289.html |
Not much in that link worth anything as far as I can tell. I have never seen any data saying CCDs have aging problems. |
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02/17/2005 06:09:35 PM · #16 |
Well thanks for all the info.
I'm only at 15,000 since March 2004 so I should be fine for another year at least.
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02/17/2005 06:11:33 PM · #17 |
I'm at 700'ish hehehe...got a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way to go (knock on wood)
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