DSLR’s shutter life span
Everyone who’s buying such expensive device like digital SLR camera asking a question: how long will it work? One of the most fallible part of the DSLR is a shutter mechanism. How long is your camera’s shutter life span?
Oleg Kikin gathering shutter life span statistics on the hundreds digital cameras. His page is continually updating with the help of camera users, so check it from time to time and don’t forget to submit your own data.
At this time there is information about five Pentax’s digital SLRs (number of clicks so far):
- Pentax *istD – avg. 48,097.6 / highest 130,000 / no faults
- Pentax *istDL – avg. 12,833.3 / highest 24,000 / no faults
- Pentax *istDS – avg. 25,484.8 / highest 35,000 / 2 faults at 9,959 and 10,510
- Pentax K100D – avg. 14,300.0 / highest 28,700 / no faults
- Pentax K10D – avg. 6,956.0 / highest 25,000 / no faults
June 8th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
My Ds is about 85000exp old. It has become shiny from holding it! The rubber on the handle is falling of and can not be reglued because it is now 2mm bigger than in its origynalstate :D (deformed)
I used it for a lot of work, and it is the most relyable piece of equipment I ever met! I broke it apart when it was 2weeks old, take it to repairs. They ordered the parts I needed, and told me to use it because it is fine inside. It took 2mounths to get all parts. So I used it for about 10000expos with a broken upper shell, a glued flash and a damaged mirror. They repared it all, and it still runs great. No change in shutter, it is still factory origyinal.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
i cut the rubber and re stick it. now it work fine and hold very comfort.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Cutting faithful my partner? :D Nooo! :DDD
September 27th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
My K10d shutter stopped functioning after ~10000 exps. Saw this blog while searching for a solution.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I have had the pentax K110d – K100d -K10d and now I have the K20d. I have shot over 150.000 on the first cameras and I have never had shutter issues or any other issue with these camers. I do not think you will have issues with the shutter even when the say 100.000 shots have been tested. The K110d had over 80.000 shots the first winter I had it. I am sure they will go over 200.000 without any problem.
December 9th, 2010 at 11:46 am
My Pentax ist Dl have reached 52471 shutter actuations on 08-12-2010, and is still not “shutting up.”
May 19th, 2011 at 10:25 am
I’ve been using a Pentax *istDS for nearly five years. It’s seen some 23,405 frames taken in that time. No hint of mechanical problem.
June 21st, 2011 at 4:44 pm
my pentax k100d is on frame 1975 on the sixth serial number series. this means it has made well over 50,000 expoaures without a failure. should i be worried?
June 21st, 2011 at 5:26 pm
d worley,
No, you shouldn’t. You can get more than 100k exposures without failures. And may be even more.