What is 20,000 shutter clicks worth?

[pwp]

I just bought a 1D Mark IV on eBay, and got a pretty good deal. I paid $2925 and $30 for shipping. Looks flawless, and only has 7500 shutter clicks (according to the listing) Problem is the camera has 26,996...

The counters reset to zero every 10,000 shots. The seller may have been reading the current shutter count. In any case, 26,996 is absolutely nothing to a 1D4. Barely run in. I'll occasionally run up 25,000 frames in a month on my 1D4 which must be up over 500,000 clicks by now. My old 1D MkIIn must have had over 750,000 clicks when I gave it to an assistant who has added a couple of hundred thousand more....all on the original shutter.

I have run with 1-Series Canons since the 1D. The only one I've missed was the flawed 1D3. They all have run up into the several hundreds of thousands on original shutters without blinking. There are plenty of 1-Series Canons with well over a million clicks still in robust daily use.

Even if your 1D4 had over 100,000 clicks on it you still got a good buy. Just forget it and enjoy your fantastic new camera. The 1D4 is a gem.

-PW

 

[CarlTN]

I just bought a 1D Mark IV on eBay, and got a pretty good deal. I paid $2925 and $30 for shipping. Looks flawless, and only has 7500 shutter clicks (according to the listing) Problem is the camera has 26,996...

The counters reset to zero every 10,000 shots. The seller may have been reading the current shutter count. In any case, 26,996 is absolutely nothing to a 1D4. Barely run in. I'll frequently run up 25,000 frames in a month on my 1D4 which must be up over 500,000 clicks by now. My old 1D MkIIn must have had over 750,000 clicks when I gave it to an assistant who has added a couple of hundred thousand more....all on the original shutter.

I have run with 1-Series Canons since the 1D. The only one I've missed was the flawed 1D3. They all have run up into the several hundreds of thousands on original shutters without blinking. There are plenty of 1-Series Canons with well over a million clicks still in robust daily use.

Even if your 1D4 had over 100,000 clicks on it you still got a good buy. Just forget it and enjoy your fantastic new camera. The 1D4 is a gem.

-PW

Great point, and that is some impressive shutter life!