Have you thought about how many photos you can actually take with your camera? It is possible to check how many have been taken for many cameras via sites that check the actuation, or shutter count, of an image you upload.
In 2008 my husband bought me the new Nikon D90. I loved that camera and used it frequently. Seems, very frequently, because, after 5 years, I had taken almost 100,000 images and wore the poor thing out. I sent it to the Camera Clinic for service and they told me it was past its used by date.
Time to get a new one! Shock, horror. I had to do some research to find something else suitable for my needs and bought a Nikon D7100. I still have it 9 years later. I got it in 2013 and to date (February 2022) it has done 99932 actuations. Panic – is this due to quit soon too? But no worries, yet. I looked up the actuation life span for the D7100 and it’s around 150,000 clicks, so is about 2/3 of the way through its lifespan.
I don’t use the D7100 as much as I used to as I got a P950 in November 2020 and it’s become my everyday camera – much lighter to carry and excellent zoom, but it doesn’t handle action shots as well as the D7100 – at least, not for me. So I still take the D7100 when I’m doing sports or bird in flight shots and often will do bursts of 300-500 images in one outing. Apparently, because the P950 has an electronic shutter, there are no moving parts so no need for a shutter count. Guess I’ll just keep using it till it no longer works – hopefully not for a long time as yet.
If you have a D7100 and want to check your shutter count, click here.
Or if you have other DSLRs, i.e. Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Ricoh, Samsung or other, try here.
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