One mroe question..D80 Shutter Life Span

[kyle shortes]

Not to spam the boards or anyhting, but I was curious as to what the shutter

life is on the D80...I cant find it anywhere.

[ShunCheung]

I am not sure that Nikon actually provides that information officially. For a consumer DSLR such as the D80, I would expect something like 50K to 75K actuations.

 

For whatever it is worth, I have mentioned before that an instructor I took a short class from knows some guy who uses a Canon 20D and shoots like crazy. In some weekend he shot 20K images. The shutter on his 20D finall broke after some 77K images, and that happened merely 7 months into his ownership of the 20D. Of course Canon fixed it under warranty.

[blumesan]

Just out of curiosity: Why did this question never come up with film SLR's with focal plane shutters? Is it because we shoot so many more frames per unit time with DSLR's?

[bruce_rubenstein___nyc]

50k exposures is almost 1400 rolls of 36 exp film. At $10/roll (for film and developing) that's $14,000 dollars. That's way more expensive for consumables than shooting digital. When shooting film most amateurs didn't shoot more than 50 rolls/yr, and that shutter would last over 25 years at that rate.

[Sanford]

After about one hundred in a day I start thinking about conputer time I will have to spend so I start to taper off or deleting in the camera.

[eric_boutilier_brown1]

I wore out a D70 at 65,000 frames (Nikon Canada replaced the shutter under warranty), and I was told the shutter block in the D80 is similar, so I would guess 50-75,000 frames before serious issues would arise.

[ShunCheung]

This question certainly has come up before during the film era. But indeed since film and processing wasn't (and still isn't) free, most people don't shoot excessively. That limitation is gone with digital.

[bill_keane2]

I seem to recall the Nikon F3's were rated at 100,000 exposures... The Canon 30D is rated to 100,000.

 

Recently switching to a D80 from film I'm shooting way more images in a given outing. I guess I'm OK if 50,000 shots is the ballpark for a D80, but in actuality, that's really not an overwhelming amount.

[g-man1]

Interesting, if my calculations are correct: a D200 at high speed 5 fps will reach 100,000 actuations (it's rated shutter life) in about 5 and a half hours.

[juan_parm_nides]

To GARY,

 

Calculations are only that, calculations. Commom sense is more important.

 

Cheers.

[albertdarmali]

Let's say if the shutter broke after 50K images, how much does it cost to repair it by the way?

[janvanlaethem]

Kyle,

 

Shutters on professional cameras like F6 and D2x will typically last about 150,000 shots. About half is what can normally be expected from semi-professional models like your D80, although it may differ from camera to camera.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about the life span of your shutter. How many pictures a year are you taking at the moment? From your biography I see you've been involved in photography for about a year. Even if you shoot something like 10,000 pictures a year (which honestly seems a lot to me, although when you start out in photography you should try your hand at all subjects), you will still be ok for the next six years. By 2013 there will be better cameras with more options for less money. If you shutter fails in 2013, you'd probably find repairing your D80 not worth it economically.

[janvanlaethem]

"Interesting, if my calculations are correct: a D200 at high speed 5 fps will reach 100,000 actuations (it's rated shutter life) in about 5 and a half hours."

 

Gary, if you ever tried that in real life, you'd better be quick changing those memory cards!! Incidentally, the F5 has an 8 frames per second rate, that means you eat through a 36 exposure film in 4.5 seconds. It takes longer to rewind and reload a film than to expose 36 shots.

[kyle shortes]

Well, on average I shoot appx. 860 shots per month, over the span of a year that is in fact less than 10k exposures and the majority of the time it weill be less than 1k per month, so I think I'm ok then.

[photo5]

The F3 shutter was designed to _need no adjustment_ for 150,000 exposures. It was built to last longer than that.

 

Dave

[darrengold]

The human eye is good for about 100,000,000+ images per lifetime with a max rate of 20fps. Perfect WB and exposure virtually every time, mono or colour. No storage card problems. Autofocus from 8cm to infinity with hardly any hunting. Excellent dynamic range. Supplied with a dominant version and identical back up and made to order in about 9 months. Variety of colours available.

 

Just the occasional lens replacement.

 

Come on Nikon, get your act together.

[kyle shortes]

Nice response Darren lol

[joe_hurley1]

Hello All

 

Im new to this site but have a reply to the question on shutter life on the D200. I have a 4 month old D200 maybe 10.000 shots. I was out taking pictues today and I kept getting an errr message , reset no good another vr lense no good , master reset new battery no good. I called nikon and they want it sent in mechanical failure. The last shot i took the shutter went twang !!!!! it will not shoot more than one shot at a time hard to focus and the error message is still on.

 

I shoot in 5 burst only I do alot of birds and action shots, Great camera with a vr lense it tack sharp !!! BUT im concerned about the shutter life ?has any one here had the same issue.