Just D wrote:

"Al Bundy"
What's the usual lifetime of D200, D80, and other cameras? I mean the
number
of shots, just approximately, X0'000, X00'000, greater? Did anybody hear
anything about that?
I don't own the models you mention. I can only say that I have gotten
thousands of pictures on my HP digitals and they have also been
dropped many times. I use them every day. As with any piece of
electronics, they can suffer a hard failure at any time so you always
need backup.

Actually I didn't mean if I drop the camera down or something like that. I
mean a usual physical wear of the shutter. I heard something about 100'000
shots, maybe slightly greater, but this info is not the latest and about the
previous generation of the cameras. And I have no idea how long the PRO and
SEMIPRO DSLR models are able to work before we need to maintain or even
replace the shutter. Just my curiosity. For example I made over 4500 shots
since the middle of December 2006 and I'm wondering if I keep going at the
same speed for how long time the camera will still be able to work great as
usual.

Just D.


Hello, Just D:

Here's some information I just found, on the Web, about DSLR shutter
lifetimes:

Nikon D200 - 100,000 actuations

Nikon D80 - 50,000 actuations

The above data, alone, seems to indicate that the D200 is considerably
more robust than the D80.


Cordially,
John Turco