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DSLR "odometers" rolled back?
Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 2:26 AM on 09.27.08 |
->> This week I bought a factory refurbished Nikon D300 to save a couple hundred bucks. I was curious to see how "refurbished" it really was, so I snapped a frame and checked the IEXIF data with Opanda.
Opanda showed the total shutter clicks at 11, so I thought that was good news. But I then realized that the file name of the first frame I shot was DSC_6343.JPG.
I'm guessing that there were really more like 6343 shutter clicks on this camera, because I can't think of any other reason that the file name order would randomly start in the 6000s. It just makes me wonder if there's some kind of hanky panky going on.
Not a real deal-breaker for me, but just something to think about when buying a refurb. |
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David Lipnowski, Photographer
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Winnipeg | MB | Canada | Posted: 9:01 AM on 09.27.08 |
| ->> maybe it had a blown shutter, which was replaced by Nikon, hence the refurbishedness of the product? |
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Joshua Sy, Student/Intern
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 4:06 PM on 09.27.08 |
| ->> Hopefully nobody's had a D300's shutter blow after ~6000 exposures - that's basically nothing! I think it's more likely that they decided that 6000 was an acceptable level of "use" for a refurb body and decided to not replace the shutter on a returned camera. |
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Stew Milne, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 4:39 PM on 09.27.08 |
->> I'm not positive with Nikon cameras, but on Canon the "odometer" only goes up to 9999 clicks. After that the frame count is flipped and the file names reused, i.e. DCS_0001, 0002, etc. So the file number of 6343, could be 6343 or 16343,
or 26343, or 26343, etc, etc. You really don't know.
I just got the shutter replaced on my IIn at 177738 clicks.
However, my odometer was not reset. My actuations now say
180000+. |
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Tom Suarez, Photographer
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Austin | texas | USA | Posted: 5:02 PM on 09.27.08 |
| ->> I think it depends on the card. I bought a new 40D and the file number started at 8 thousand and something because it was a card I previously used. The exif data maybe correct. |
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Doug Holleman, Photographer
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Temple | TX | USA | Posted: 12:01 AM on 09.28.08 |
| ->> My main question is why would there be such a discrepancy between the Opanda iEXIF data and the file sequence? Seems like the file sequence would automatically be cleared during the refurb process, since I assume they would restore factory defaults. |
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Primoz Jeroncic, Photographer
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Kranj | SI | Slovenia | Posted: 2:28 AM on 09.28.08 |
| ->> I have no idea about Nikon, but with Canon 1d you can actually "turn" acctuations number back... or forward. If you have two cameras and you save settings for CF card and load settings to other camera, second camera gets acctuations of first one. Now if you have saved settings from new camera, camera with few 100.000 acctuations, is all of a sudden much less used camera. I have no idea if 1d has another "oddometer" built in so CPS could see true acctuation count, but this what we as normal users can see, is not really reliable thing... unfortunately. |
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Yamil Sued, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Peoria | AZ | USA | Posted: 8:12 PM on 09.28.08 |
->> Most of these refurb D300's are SHOW Cameras, that have been clicked and handled at Shows. Usually they have very low mileage!! I'm considering a Refurb D200 from Roberts ($764 until Thursday) as a remote.
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