Wow. 7D2 deliberately run at 10 fps until the shutter died...

[Angler13]

To do so continuously is quite an achievement - I would expect the mechanism to benefit from intermittent use because the materials would get chance to recover from the stresses.

Agreed. To me, this test feels like it shows the *minimum* life of the shutter. I would think it would last longer than 200,000 shots if they weren't all used up on one overheating, rapid-fire showdown.

Like 'city vs highway' miles when looking at a car.

 

[testthewest]

What a letdown! These missing 500 pictures could have had the winner... : :

 

[scyrene]

That's suspiciously close, almost as if the firmware was designed to report a failure after 200k +/- some small number.

*Sigh* No wonder there are so many conspiracy theories. This is why we can't have nice things.

 

[veng]

I'm rather impressed. I shutters aren't designed to continuously operate for hours on end. I'd expect "normal usage" to actually be less stressful than the test they did.