What is the life span of Canon and Nikon cameras? What is the measure?

Although this question is not professional, there are still many friends around me asking it. Say it briefly.

For SLR cameras, the most vulnerable place is the camera shutter, which is a very precise part, so there is also the problem of natural wear. Pressing the shutter is a kind of wear. In the shutter life given by Canon, the average shutter life of non-professional cameras is1.5-200,000 times, and that of professional or top-class cameras can reach 300,000 times or even higher, but this data is obtained in the real shooting process in the laboratory.

Generally, the average number of times a landscape photographer presses the shutter is low, because there are fewer suitable time periods in landscape shooting, while sports photographers are completely different. Their shutters need to maintain the high-speed continuous shooting mode continuously, and dozens or even hundreds of photos may be taken at a time. So they are shutter killers, and it is easy for them to reach 300 thousand photos.

However, camera manufacturers are not stupid. They also develop different shutter components for different cameras. For example, the shutter assembly of 100D is completely different from that of 1DX, so there is a great difference in accuracy and durability.

In addition to the shutter, there are some factors that affect the life of the camera. For example, the overall tightness of the camera is also drenched by rain, and the top model is generally good, while the entry camera may hang up. For example, if the camera bumps outdoors, it may damage internal parts. The entry camera generally adopts plastic body, and the top model adopts magnesium-aluminum alloy, which has different degrees of protection. There is also the life of common buttons, which will directly affect the life of the camera.

Generally speaking, it is very normal and necessary to replace the fuselage every 5-6 years under normal use. As far as the life of the camera is concerned, it can be divided into many situations:

1, for film cameras, in fact, the life of many film cameras is not as durable as imagined, even far less than the current digital SLR cameras. Why? Because film cameras are too easy to be damaged, for example, some film cameras will be easily damaged if the shutter speed is adjusted after uploading. Alas, for film cameras, all kinds of brute force will be damaged if used improperly. Film cameras are really fragile things. Don't lend them to people who don't understand, otherwise it's good to lend them out and bad to take them back.

Film cameras are really easily damaged. This is my knowledge, not my prejudice. For example, Minolta X700 or Nikon FM2 should be bought in different situations, and accidentally bought a machine with a shutter problem. You can search online specifically.

Even if it is for special use, it is very precious. The life of many film cameras will not exceed 1000 shutter times (not necessarily the shutter is broken, but there are various problems anyway), which is true!

Photo studio or professional film camera, used for several years, with a lot of minor problems and big problems!

If you like to play with film cameras, if you buy an old film camera, you must carefully study its use and cherish it. Even so, it is normal to have frequent failures.

In the past, drivers had to be able to repair cars, and most photographers had to learn to repair cameras. Take the paraxial camera as an example. After long-distance transportation, the focus of the camera will be out of order. At this time, you need to use a screwdriver to correct the focus yourself. Of course, this is not the real problem. The real problem really needs to be taken apart to fix.

In the era of film cameras, there are really too many people who can repair cameras. At least in the era of digital photography, most people don't know how to repair cameras, hehe.

2. For digital cameras, the current manufacturers, including some high-end automatic fool cameras in the film era, are the same in order to reduce costs. After the warranty period, there will be many problems.

Not long ago, my Panasonic FZ 1000 camera broke down. I took it to the camera repairman and took it apart. The master said that Panasonic uses low-grade resistors, which are easy to be damaged in humid environment. Some people say that Sony's black card is very expensive, because this cheap component is a bit expensive, so Sony's black card is not as easy to damage as Panasonic. To repair this Panasonic FZ 1000, the top cover must be replaced as a whole. Alas, it's too expensive. It's better to be a corpse.

In many automatic fool cameras in the film age, the cable inside the lens is very easy to break, and it can't be used after being broken, and the maintenance cost is very expensive!

In the film age, many automatic fool cameras are also very unfriendly to batteries, and they are easy to be damaged after using nickel-cadmium batteries, but consumers don't know what nickel-cadmium batteries are!

Nowadays, many low-grade digital SLR also use many easily damaged parts. In short, let your camera rot as soon as possible after the warranty period. How can you replace it with a new one?

3. For photographic lenses, there are many photographic lenses, which are really good when they are just bought back, but after a while, the imaging quality is getting worse and worse, and the decline is serious! When you think the dog's head is not a dog, you suddenly find that the dog's head is not yesterday's!

4. For high-end digital SLR, manufacturers still have conscience. Generally speaking, after the warranty period, they dare not cut corners or break them, so they can still use them with confidence.

For high-end digital SLR, it is actually no problem to take 1 10,000 photos in general (of course, you may need to change the shutter 1-2 times).

Just because the shutter is broken doesn't mean the camera is completely broken. If the shutter is broken, just change it. Generally speaking, it is really no problem to take 654.38+00000 photos in the whole life cycle by changing the shutter. (change the shutter, 1000 yuan or so)

(In contrast, the SLR camera in the film age, the whole life cycle, the low-end fuselage, is about 1 10,000 photos. )

Ok, to sum up: a, for film cameras, most of them are easy to break after the warranty period. Of course, they are also easy to be damaged by improper use during the warranty period. The whole life cycle is about 10000 photos. B, for ordinary digital cameras, cutting corners is normal, so it will break after the warranty period. C, for high-end digital SLR, it is indeed a durable consumer goods. After changing the shutter several times, you should be able to take one million photos in the whole life cycle.

Cameras have no service life, only the reality of being eliminated by later models. Because in the increasingly rapid digital age, digital cameras are updated quickly, and manufacturers are very careful when setting the functions of each model, so they must leave some new functions on the next model. Each model has some shortcomings and reservations, so that everyone is psychologically looking forward to the early arrival of the next model.

The camera body is well protected and can be used all the time. The camera body assembly is damaged and can be replaced. Everyone who is new to SLR is generally worried about the shutter life. At present, the shutter life of SLR is at least 50,000 to 65,438+10,000. According to my amateur friends who usually play SLR, they can't shoot 65,438+10,000 yuan a year (basically, it will be a little longer when they first get it, and at least half of them will travel with their mobile phones instead of SLR).

Actually, it costs 500 yuan to change a shutter assembly to 600 yuan. You can go to the repair shop to have a look (I won't say about the brand repair station, it's mysterious to look outside, and you have to take the number if you don't see the repair site). The inside of the camera is not mysterious, just a big mobile phone with some mechanical devices, but the outer frame is plastic and metal. Mobile phone repair shops are all over the street now, so you won't feel mysterious now, will you? But will you still remember the scene of waiting in line to repair your mobile phone in a brand store a few years ago? At that time, did everyone think that the inside of the mobile phone must be very advanced, very precise and very precise?

The biggest taboo of using the camera is water, so be sure to keep it off all the time (try to avoid getting caught in the rain when using it, and dry it in time when it spills a little water). Don't blindly believe the waterproof function claimed by the manufacturer, unless it is military grade and equipped with a waterproof cover, otherwise you will cry immediately. When not in use, you should put the camera and lens in the drying oven. Drying boxes are not expensive. If you don't have many lenses, you can buy a small one, and you can buy an electronic drying oven for hundreds of dollars. You can always use the camera until you feel that the camera is not fresh, or you feel envious when you see others using the new model, or your technology has made great progress, so the original model can't satisfy you, so change it. Haha, that's where people throw their numbers games. In my opinion, the real loser is not the lens, but the ever-changing fuselage. The lens can be preserved once and for all, and the fuselage is endless). The most important thing to pay attention to when using a camera is actually to protect the lens, which is the most delicate and can't stand stumbling.

Be more convincing! Please look at four pictures first!

Speaking of the purchase process of this camera, it is quite funny to think about it now. I bought a D6 10 camera around 20/4. At that time, the previous D600 was caught in a slag scandal, and Nikon was criticized at the 3 15 party, so Nikon had to urgently produce a batch of D6 10 for the customers of D600 to replace for free. I am satisfied with everything, so I plan to spend the rest of my life with it!

With the deepening of use, I feel that 6 10 is really balanced, but the focusing performance is a bit unsatisfactory. 16 after giving birth to the second child, I found that sometimes it is always blurred to shoot the child after focusing. In short, various methods have been tried, such as increasing the shutter speed and narrowing the aperture. There are always a few shots in the last ten pictures that are not clear. 18 is the last straw. I thought I might as well get into a second-hand single-digit machine. I won't go to see poor people such as D4, but only see D3 or D3S, and finally decided to see D3S because it is newer. When I went to TB, I saw D3S in various colors. 98% new, 95% new, more exaggerated is the unopened version, and the price has also reached 10,000 yuan. I'm thinking of a machine that's almost ten years old. Do you have this new one? Second-hand, as we all know, those unscrupulous merchants sell thousands more at a time. Based on the principle of reverse thinking, I tried to ask the shopkeeper: Boss, do you have a D3S with combat quality? My idea at that time was that since it was a machine for ten years, it should be like using it for ten years. Even if it looks a little unsightly, it's fortunately not decorated, and the price is thousands cheaper. Who knows that when I asked the shopkeeper, it was like lightning and thunder, and the shopkeeper enthusiastically said to me: Dear! You came to the right place. Our store has just received a D3S in combat color. Do you want to see it? Shit, he really does. I pretended to be calm and said, come, send a picture to see! Actually, I just want to see the quality of the battle. As a result, I was at a loss as soon as the picture was sent out. This is what everyone saw on the picture. The boss went on to say: the battery has been dead for almost ten years, and the shoulder strap is too dirty to throw away. . . .

I shivered and asked my boss, at least this rubber you stuck has a poor appearance. The boss continued, dear! Very cheap! This sentence simply hits my heart. At that time, 980% of the new D3S sold more than 9000 online. I asked weakly: How much is this machine? Boss: 6200 and the original packaging and instructions. I have to say that the price is not suitable for poor people like me. So I went on to ask: Is there anything wrong with the machine? The boss said: the function is ok, it has not been repaired, but the appearance is too bad to sell. I asked if there was anything wrong with the machine. Can I return it? The boss also said that it was no problem to return the goods after three days' trial. Because I was in a hurry, I didn't even ask how much the shutter cost, so I paid directly. After waiting a few days for the goods to arrive, I began to test the machine and check the reflector, CMOS, continuous shooting speed and focusing module. Finally, I remember to check the shutter. I checked over 60,000 times. At that time, I thought that the color shutter of Nima was only 60 thousand times, and dogs didn't believe it. So I had an in-depth communication with my boss, and the boss said frankly that it was about 280 thousand times before I brushed the shutter. I finally checked the number of times the D3S shutter was online. This check is irrelevant. A guy actually pressed 654.38+00,000 times without changing the shutter. At that time, I thought, after all, I am poor, and a single-digit machine can play so well. Ha ha! I feel very good until today. The cover is solid and durable, the focus is stable and firm, and the continuous shooting speed is also very good, except for the low pixel.

I won't comment, because I haven't used Canon machines, but Nikon machines, especially single-digit machines, can really play. I can accompany you to the ends of the earth when I go in, and you don't have to worry about it being broken. You have never dropped the chain for me.

Generally, the number of shutters shall prevail, because electronic circuits and housings have no service life. The shutter times of middle and high-end cameras are 10- 15000 times, and the top cameras are as high as 300,000 times. Therefore, except for professional use (photo studio, memory), ordinary digital cameras will hardly wear out. Take it as soon as you take it, and you will earn one if you take one.

This is a false proposition. Everyone uses it in different ways in different environments. How do you define the service life of that? Take the shutter life statistics of Canon 5D2 made in America five years ago. The longest use was 2 million times, and when it was unlucky, it was more than 50,000 times, even 654.38+10,000 times as the manufacturer said. The quality of electronic products is affected by the batches of various components.

Normal use of the shutter, the average plastic slippers (entry-level) is about 70,000 to100,000, and the average home photographer has no problem for ten or eight years, with a professional level of 6.5438+0.5 million times. I don't know how many times I have upgraded in ten years and eight years, and the fare is still worth it. This is calculated on the basis of your efforts, so you don't have to worry about the service life. I think it's more practical for you to pay more attention to maintenance and cleaning to avoid electrical components from getting wet. May you have fun on the road of photography and shoot good works!

Professional SLR, theoretical shutter life is about 300,000 times. A good photographer can start with a professional camera, so that he can shoot freely and play for ten years. The picture was taken by a traveler. )

I made my own pinhole camera to take pictures. The camera can be used for a lifetime.

Let's start with the D700 in my hand. I bought it at 1 1. After ten years, the shutter is now 29w+. Besides changing the battery, the rubber is a little swollen. Everything else is fine and the shutter is still smooth and powerful. Imaging is no different from the new one!