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Shutter Actuations...?
Kenneth Jacobson, Photographer, Assistant
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:53 AM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> So I just checked and I've got a D2H with just over 352,000 clicks on the shutter. I'm curious what everyone else's most-used camera is and how many clicks are on it. |
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Wes Hope, Photographer
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Maryville | TN | USA | Posted: 10:11 AM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> Geez, I thought my mileage was high. I'm pushing 130k on my beloved main, 3 year-old, D2h and about 30k on the backup D2h. The shutter life on the D2 is supposedly 150k, right? So have you had to replace your shutter yet Kenneth? Or twice? |
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Kenneth Jacobson, Photographer, Assistant
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 11:32 AM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> Nope, this is still shutter numero uno. |
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Curtis Darbee, Student/Intern
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Lafayette | CA | United States | Posted: 3:58 PM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> anyone know what the shutter life of the d200 is suppose to be??? |
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Tuomo Tenhunen, Photographer
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Lohja | - | Finland | Posted: 4:11 PM on 09.12.06 |
->> Curtis,
Nikon has announced the D200 shutter as "tested to well over 100,000 cycles". |
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Trevor Little, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Peterborough | On | Canada | Posted: 4:24 PM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> wow my D2h shutter died at 62,000. I checked my D200 a couple days ago and its around 30,000 and the thing is only 3 months old. I hope it lasts more than a year. |
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Curtis Darbee, Student/Intern
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Lafayette | CA | United States | Posted: 4:26 PM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> WOW your D200 is at 30,000!!! I thought I had alot, I'm just under 10,000. |
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Jason Sipes, Photographer
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Altoona | PA | USA | Posted: 8:14 PM on 09.12.06 |
| ->> how do you check that info? |
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Wes Hope, Photographer
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Maryville | TN | USA | Posted: 10:30 PM on 09.12.06 |
->> Jason, here's the freeware that I've used:
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html
Just make sure you use a .jpg. It can't read raw files. Scroll through all the data and toward the bottom you'll see "total number of shutter releases."
I've only used it with the D2h so your mileage may vary. |
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Serafin Martinez, Photographer
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Carolina | PR | | Posted: 3:23 AM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> Can this be used for Canon. Or is there some other form to find this info. |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 5:35 AM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> For Canon (at least for 1d) you can get this info with Photo Mechanic (current version has smaller "bug" for 1dmk2 which has more then 32.000 actuations) or with freeware ExifRead (exif field: Unknown (0093)). But I have no idea about Opanda software since I was never using it, even though I believe it can do for Canon too. |
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Serafin Martinez, Photographer
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Carolina | PR | | Posted: 1:41 PM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> Primoz where in photo Mechanic. |
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John Tucker, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cordova | TN | USA | Posted: 2:02 PM on 09.14.06 |
->> Opanda can only read exif info for the following Nikons:
D70/D70s, D50, D2X, D2H and later.
Not sure about the Canon's |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 2:18 PM on 09.14.06 |
->> Serafin just add actuations variable to Info text and you get number of actuations for specific photo. It's 2 step process. Under Edit->Set Info Text... add this:
Actuations #: {actuations}
And after this you get number of actuations in Image Info (right mouse button click on photo and select Image Info). If you have problems setting this drop me note :) |
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Eric Swist, Photographer
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The Woodlands | TX | USA | Posted: 2:35 PM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> D200 - 37,510....cool |
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Jack McCoy, Photographer
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Baldwin | NY | USA | Posted: 4:22 PM on 09.14.06 |
->> Primoz...thanks for that info.
Canon 1-D 147,000 |
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Serafin Martinez, Photographer
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Carolina | PR | | Posted: 5:40 PM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> Primoz I did that and have no results, I just downloaded the prograam and I am using a demo could it be the reason it doesn't work. Thanks in advance. |
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Ian L. Sitren, Photographer
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Palm Springs | CA | USA | Posted: 6:47 PM on 09.14.06 |
| ->> Thank you Primoz, that works perfectly on my RAW files from my MKII. |
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Alan S. Rubin, Photographer
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Charleston | SC | USA | Posted: 8:22 PM on 09.14.06 |
->> Will this work for a Nikon D1H/
tks
Alan |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 2:15 AM on 09.15.06 |
->> It works on 1d and 1dmk2, but I don't have other cameras, so I can't tell if it works on other cameras. Only problem might be, if you were trying this on edited photos. I just tried this on edited photo and it doesn't show actuation number (it doesn't show whole bunch of other stuff like firmware, serial #, frame # etc. either, while it still shows shutter speed, iso etc.). But on original jpegs it should work normaly even on demo version. As far as I know only difference between demo and normal version of Photo Mechanic is time limit on demo version.
PS: Ian just for your info. 4.4.3.2 has little issue which will be fixed in 4.4.3.3. On 1dmk2 which has more then 30 or 32.000 frames, it shows actuations number a but weird. It shows it like -25000 for camera with about 40.000 frames. You can get right number with substracting actuations from 65536 :) But Dennis from Camera bits wrote this "problem" is fixed already for next release. |
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Corey Perrine, Photographer
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Hudson | NH | USA | Posted: 3:20 AM on 09.15.06 |
| ->> Dumb question? Why don't Canon and Nikon make it so you can just have a built in actuation counter? Why the need for third party software? |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 8:26 AM on 09.15.06 |
->> Corey,
Probably because any time a user had a shutter fail before the published MTBF, they would expect it to be fixed for free, under warranty or not...
Chuck |
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Paul W Gillespie, Photographer
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Annapolis | MD | USA | Posted: 6:17 PM on 09.15.06 |
| ->> My old Kodak DCS 520 had it built in. That camera was a classic. Had an actuation counter, built in voice recorder, file recovery if you accidently deleted your files, heck it even had pong. Not bad for a camera built in 1999. |
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Ron Calef, Photographer
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Penn Valley | CA | USA | Posted: 5:06 PM on 11.09.06 |
| ->> When your shutter fails due to high actuations on a D2x, for example, do you need to take out a second mortgage to have the mechanism replaced at your friendly Nikon repair shop? |
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Nick Wright, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Independence | KS | USA | Posted: 6:57 PM on 11.09.06 |
->> Paul, I loved my old DCS520/D2000.
When I just recently got my very own 1D, I spent half an hour scrolling through menus trying to find the shutter count option. :P
Pong ... heh ...
Managing Editor: "Hey what are you doing?"
Phojo: "Oh ... uh ... nothing ... just lookin at my recent shots." ;) |
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Mike Shepherd, Photographer
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Wichita | KS | USA | Posted: 8:10 PM on 11.09.06 |
| ->> from what i can see, it looks like this only works if you have a PC. is that true, or am i missing something? anyone on a mac able to use this? |
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Rainier Ehrhardt, Photographer
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Andrew Hreha, Student/Intern
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Oxnard | CA | USA | Posted: 9:45 PM on 11.09.06 |
| ->> Hey, does anyone know if the count gets reset when the shutter is replaced? |
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Kenneth Jacobson, Photographer, Assistant
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 9:59 PM on 11.09.06 |
| ->> I don't know but I'm about to find out 'cause after I opened my big mouth about Super D2H, The Indestructible the shutter decided to finally quit a week and a half ago. Grr... |
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David Gordon, Photographer
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Somerville | MA | United States | Posted: 12:31 AM on 11.10.06 |
->> canon 1d- 467K :-)
though, i did replace the shutter this summer.
anyone wanna buy it? |
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Mark Tassoni, Photographer
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Bryn Mawr | PA | US | Posted: 3:11 PM on 12.04.06 |
->> I ran that opanda softwatre on my D200...bought the camera in July...already at over 38,000. Either I'm shooting too much (not a bad problem I guess) or that software is wrong...
anyone know why Nikon can't just have the info on the camera? |
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Albert Brown, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Winston-Salem | NC | USA | Posted: 5:09 PM on 12.04.06 |
| ->> D2H at 48,050.. booyah! |
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Marie Hughes, Photographer
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Fremont | CA | USA | Posted: 9:18 PM on 12.04.06 |
->> Chuck- Canon replaced my shutter for free on my 1D even though the camera was out of warranty without me even asking so I don't think that's it. I think they just didn't want to find a spot in their UI to show the total actuations.
When I got the shutter replaced, my camera came back saying I had already shot over 20k of images. So they did change the shutter count somehow but didn't set it back to 0. |
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Kent Porter, Photographer
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Santa Rosa | CA | USA | Posted: 10:18 PM on 12.04.06 |
| ->> My Mark Two just passed 115k and low and behold it blew a shutter blade. CPS time. |
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Whitney Woodward, Student/Intern
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Orem | UT | USA | Posted: 4:37 PM on 12.05.07 |
| ->> Nikon D200 at just under 21,000 and backup D200 at 12,940....thats alot of images! |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 5:51 PM on 12.05.07 |
| ->> Since we're on shutter clicks, does anybody know of a way to determine the total on a Nikon D100? The Opanda exif viewer doesn't support that feature for that camera and shows no info on total clicks, like it does on other Nikons. |
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Karsten Moran, Photographer, Photo Editor
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New York | NY | United States of America | Posted: 6:29 PM on 12.05.07 |
->> The manufacturers do actually provide shutter actuations in EXIF - that's where Opanda gets it - it just isn't as easy to find as the 'everyday' stuff.
Along the same lines, Adobe Bridge, which comes bundled with most Adobe software, including Photoshop, should do the trick. Right clicked on the jpg and go to file info, advanced, exif properties.
Here's a link I think many of you will find interesting. It's essentially a database of shutter life @ #actuations. Not sure how often it's updated, and one should certainly take the info with a grain of sale, but it seems like a worthwhile project. If you're checking your shutter life, or if your shutter blows, you might want to contribute. P.S. The average numbers at the top seem practically useless and there are a number of outliers in the data sets I browsed through.
http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/sitemap.php
Finally, as far as I know, there's no way to determine the number of actuations on a D100. Someone please prove me wrong. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 8:23 PM on 12.05.07 |
->> OK,
I don't know if this has been discussed here before, but...
I just got my second lightly used MKIIn, I copied my settings from my first MKIIn, it had 160K+ Actuaciotns, I copied these actuations to my new MKIIn, now it shows the same actuations on Photomechanic as my old MKIIn.
How do I clear this?? |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 9:01 PM on 12.05.07 |
| ->> My D2H shutter died just shy of 75,000 clicks; that was just recently so I'm probably around 80,000 or so now. About 65,000 on my D200, over about 18 months. Not a lot compared to many of you here! |
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Rob Edwards, Photographer
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Peru | IN | United States | Posted: 9:42 PM on 12.05.07 |
| ->> Nikon D2Hs--29,000 clicks and going strong!!! |
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Scott Fong, Student/Intern
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Pacifica | CA | USA | Posted: 1:38 AM on 12.06.07 |
| ->> Had a D2h at 127k then sold it!!! :) |
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Kenneth Jacobson, Photographer, Assistant
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Merrimack | NH | USA | Posted: 9:15 AM on 12.06.07 |
| ->> Boy, my D2H that had the 352,000 clicks on it had the shutter replaced around Thanksgiving '06 and now has over 200,000 clicks on it again. That thing's taking a beating. |
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Derrick den Hollander, Photographer
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Melbourne | VIC | AUSTRALIA | Posted: 6:34 AM on 12.07.07 |
| ->> My D200 is at 91,000+ actuations, so I guess I'm getting a little nervous - camera is about 2 weeks away from being 12 months old. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 7:11 AM on 12.07.07 |
| ->> Kenneth - buy a video camera. :) |
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Geoffrey Bolte, Photographer, Assistant
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Spencer | MA | USA | Posted: 7:28 AM on 12.07.07 |
->> My D200 I got in January just passed 102000 a week ago. It is in Nikon service now for a metering issue which has been going on for the 2 months and is at Nikon for the 2nd time.
My new D300 is at 2000+ and I got it last friday. Will be putting on some more mileage on it this weekend. |
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Kevin Novak, Photographer, Assistant
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Bel Air (Baltimore) | MD | USA | Posted: 10:27 AM on 12.07.07 |
->> I think I'm on borrowed time...
D2HS 250K+
D2X 220K
It's only a matter of time. |
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Geoffrey Bolte, Photographer, Assistant
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Spencer | MA | USA | Posted: 11:25 AM on 12.07.07 |
| ->> Enjoy it while it lasts. My D200 is still under warranty but has gone over on shutter count, luckily its still working like a charm for now. It now goes to backup when it comes back from service. |
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Kenneth Jacobson, Photographer, Assistant
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Merrimack | NH | USA | Posted: 1:29 PM on 12.09.07 |
| ->> Why, Chuck... whatever do you mean? |
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Debra L Rothenberg, Photographer
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New York | NY | USA | Posted: 1:41 PM on 12.09.07 |
->> 278k on my beloved D2X
D2Xs-about 6k. It's an expensive paperweight |
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