Thursday, September 22, 2005, 6:59:24 PM, Dario wrote:
DB> Yesterday, while I was at a customer's premises (a photo industry company) I
DB> heard that few Nikon D70's are capable to exceed 6,000-7,000 shots before
DB> their shutters get kaputt.
DB> Does anyone else heard such gossip? Sylwek?
Well, my D70 had shutter problems right around 20 000 exposures, but
after quite heavy journalistic use. It still works well,
at more than 30 000 exposures, but with intermittent problems (the
damned service center sucks, but there is no professional service in
my country, be it for Nikon or Canon, and Pentax service is a
laugh...). One other shooter had mechanical problems too, few others'
D70 are going on well. But I was aware the camera was never designed
for this kind of use. It's just a consummable - when it brokes buy a
new one. I don't like that but what can I do short of shelling out
much more for a D2X. I don't think it would survive 50 000 cycles,
we will see in a short time if I am still using it by that time ;-)
BTW, the real pro digitals are rated by manufacturers from 100 000
(EOS 5D) to 150 000 or even 200 000 exposures. Of course these are only
theoretical numbers, it's known that _every_ camera will break if the
shoot is important enough ;-)
Good light!
fra
