How many actuations on your Canons?

[AnselA]

Remind me never to buy a body from any of you.

 

[phemark]

Remind me never to buy a body from any of you.

Exactly my thoughts - although they will look perfect and well kept (probably ) on the outside, in the inside shutter has done a billion ups and downs

 

[birdman]

5d2 bought in July 2010. Less than 8,000 actuations!!

It is practically new!! If I change over to D800, someone will be getting a flawless camera for a REAL BARGAIN!!

All my gear is well taken care of. There's no doubt that DSLR would last me 10 solid years. Great quality. Heck, I met a guy who used his 5d2 for wildlife shooting and it was so beat up the LCD had glass chunks missing on two of the outer edges!! I shot it a little (before I bought mine) and that wonderful Canon 5d shutter sound was still perfect. I'm willing to bet he had 150,000+ actuations on that camera!!

 

[bvukich]

My old XSi was at about 50k last time I checked. And my 60D is somewhere north of 30k (I haven't actually checked the count, but the file numbering recently rolled over a third time).

 

[Bosman]

Remind me never to buy a body from any of you.

LOL! I tried parting with my 1dm3 to get another 5dm3 but i couldn't get enough for it and it is a heck of a lot more valuable to me than some shmo asking how many actuations before buying it haha. Beside The internals getting replaced pretty much means new every time because my body has minimal scuffing, looks new cept the bottom where i used to attach my monopod, now i use a RRS plate and Tilt head. All the buttons and dials are D series quality, still about as snappy and responsive as when i bought it new in 2007.

 

[Bosman]

On May 6th, next month i will shoot approx. 10,000 images in that day alone. I have a marathon to shoot and hired 5 other guys that usually bring in 7-10,000 also. There are around 8,000 participants and we try to get 2 or 3 of each person if possible. Of course we miss people but we try.

Yikes. That's A LOT of photos!!!

Ha! The real ouch will be with my eyes from going thru 60,000 images in a weeks time while living on monster energy drink lol.

 

[gmrza]

On May 6th, next month i will shoot approx. 10,000 images in that day alone. I have a marathon to shoot and hired 5 other guys that usually bring in 7-10,000 also. There are around 8,000 participants and we try to get 2 or 3 of each person if possible. Of course we miss people but we try.

Yikes. That's A LOT of photos!!!

Ha! The real ouch will be with my eyes from going thru 60,000 images in a weeks time while living on monster energy drink lol.

I take my hat off to you on that one! My wife did some jobs last year which each involved shooting between 5000 and 6000 images in 5 days each. Living with her while she was doing the post work was a challenge! Shooting over 1000 images per day with a gripped 5DII, 70-200mm f/2.8 and 580EXII for 5 days also did wonders for her upper body muscle tone!

 

[Bosman]

On May 6th, next month i will shoot approx. 10,000 images in that day alone. I have a marathon to shoot and hired 5 other guys that usually bring in 7-10,000 also. There are around 8,000 participants and we try to get 2 or 3 of each person if possible. Of course we miss people but we try.

Yikes. That's A LOT of photos!!!

Ha! The real ouch will be with my eyes from going thru 60,000 images in a weeks time while living on monster energy drink lol.

I take my hat off to you on that one! My wife did some jobs last year which each involved shooting between 5000 and 6000 images in 5 days each. Living with her while she was doing the post work was a challenge! Shooting over 1000 images per day with a gripped 5DII, 70-200mm f/2.8 and 580EXII for 5 days also did wonders for her upper body muscle tone!

;D

 

[RAKAMRAK]

The naming convention made me think:

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You're almost correct. The reason .............

Ok. Just a check: so if I name my files: [shooting date][prefix][number (6 digits)].CR2 is that too long with risk of filecorruption or damage to the memorycard? Especially shooting AI-servo 8fps?

Do not worry, you are not changing the file naming within the camera. Camera will still name is as _MG_XXXX.CR2 or IMG_XXXX.CR2. It is only when you are transferring the pictures to your computer that they get renames. Moreover, why use 6 digits? if you are adding [shooting date] to the then 6 digits are superfluous. Are you a professional who might capture more than 10,000 pictures on a single day, ever? If your answer is no to both then 4 digits are enough, if your answer is yes to the second part (more than 10,000 picture on a single day) then 5 digits will be enough (even if you are a professional you cannot possibly take more than or equal to 100,000 photographs a day).