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From: "Shel Belinkoff"
Subject: 10,000 exposures on an istDS
I was offered a used istDS today, and the camera has 10,000+ exposures on
it. Seems to me about average for a 1yo camera - yes, no? What percentage
of the camera's useful life may gone. Is there some number that Pentax
uses for the camera's life expectancy? Is the istDS one of those 50,000
exposure wonders, or can one reasonably expect 100,000 or more exposures?
Does anyone have close to 100,000 exposures on their Pentax DSLR?
Someone liked taking pictures.... It took me two years to shoot that much on
the istD.
I don't see why one of those shutters shouldn't do 100,000 actuations.
The other thing is that the owner says it only shows 2300 or so exposures.
How can that be? Is there a way to reset the exposure counter, such as
when the camera is being repaired (perhaps if something was replaced or
damaged) , or by the user when fooling around with things?
They do 10,000 exposures then start again.
Also, it is possible to reset the user visible exposure counter.
I suspect there is an actuation counter imbedded in the thing someplace that
can tell how many shutter actuations the camera has made.
William Robb
