On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 4:54 AM, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/14 Rick Womer <[email protected]>: >> DSLR actually stands for Damn Sh**ty Lousy Reliability, regardless of who >> the manufacturer is. >> >> (That said... (knock on wood)... I have had no failures in 15K exposures on >> my istD and K10D). > > Me too. > I do recall people bitching about LX reliability, though. Not just > sticky mirror issues... > Makes me wonder if reliability has truly worsened, or if it's just > more visible because of the online forums. > > Jostein >
Reliability has gotten better, not worse. But expected reliability without regular service has increased faster. Consumer DSLR's are expected to have a shutter life of 50,000 or more shots. Nobody expected a MZ-50 to last 1300+ rolls without service (50k shots is 1388 36ex rolls). -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
