----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hello All, > In his latest mailing, David Cardinal, the editor of DigitalPro Shooter, > makes the statement that Digital SLRs are less reliable than Film. > Have any of the heavier shooters on this list found this? > I don't shoot digital yet, and am only a light user, so it doesn't directly > affect me, but hey, it is very quiet here at the moment. > Cheers > Keith
I've had an EOS 10D since March 2003 and it's taken something like 5,000 shots so far. (My 2 Coolpix compacts have also shot about 5,000 between them.) Not many, I know, by the standards of some, but I do know that over about 4 decades of shooting film slides I only got to about 20,000. That was spread over many cameras, (4 x Minolta X700s, EOS600, 2 x EOS50Es, EOS10, EOS3, Nikon 8008, Pentax SME, SRT101, Contaflex 1 etc.) and they certainly weren't without trouble. Worst by far were the two EOS50E bodies (bought over a year apart) which in addition to not working properly with the dedicated 380EX flash & wide-angle lenses, rewound film early and totally randomly. My point is that affordable & capable DSLRs have only been with us for a few years, do tend to get used heavily as digital "film" is "free", and in my case since getting the 10D, I've only used my EOS3 once, and that was to produce slides for a slide presentation. Long live digital - A3 & B3 prints fron my Epson 1270 beat anything I could do before.
Just a data point here. My 1.5 yr old backup EOS 3 just died at frame # 537. The shutter sticks and needs to be sent in for repairs. All cameras have reliability issues, some just show them sooner than others. My 1n, when I sold it, still had yet to fail at photo # 30,000+....
RH
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