Pro or Con ?

[thierry nguyen cuu - nomad]

With all the papers written on the 1D3 I still think that it's a wonderful camera.

 

It now comes with a shutter counter :-)

 

I just realized that this is one of the feature that has reveilled a few questions:

 

This is good when you buy the cam first hand and want to keep track of the 300 K

"mental border". Could this be a brake for "practicing" with the camera?

 

What benefit could it be when you want to trade it for something else, say a

1D47 in 3 years(seller and buyer side?) It may be a (big) bit premature for a

second hand market of this camera but still...

 

Although I am not a crazy sensitive right index shooter, after two "small"

events, the counter already shows 1700 actuations. I shoot single shot most of

the time... Is the 300 K garanteed actuations ... enough? assuming that I have

an average of two assigments a month ?

 

I am still thinking of the previous days that there was no counter and that I

used to shoot a bit more than 3K shoots for a 10 hr wedding coverage.

The tank built 1D3 would take 300 weddings without sweating then.

 

Oh BTW, I also had the famous err 99 after only 2 shots from an out of the box

camera. I did something and then it runs as fast as it should.

 

When to much is just enough.

[zml]

Pretty much all DSLR cameras have a shutter actuation counter. On most models you'd need some form of maintenance software to read it, though.

[johnson_d.]

How much does a shutter replacement cost? $200-$300? Is this really a significant expense after 300k worth of work? Personally, I wouldn't worry about it and don't.

[kari v]

300 000 shutter clicks, 24 assigments per year, let's say 1000-3000 shutter clicks per job... the shutter will last for 4-12 years and after that a replacement cost $250.

 

Just ignore the counter.