Secondhand D70 whats an acceptable Shutter number of actuation count

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 14:31

Hi there,

If buying a used D70 what would you class as to be a acceptable amount of

shutter actuations?

I'm new to SLR and will probably keep the camera a few years before

upgrading.

What would you class as young, being middle aged? old aged?

Thanks

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 14:45

robmiller said:
How often are you going to use it? The shutter in the D50 is rated for about 50,000 actuations, so work out how long it will take you to reach that given how much you typically shoot. If it's taken 25k, how long will it realistically take you to put another 25k through it?

I want to start shooting quite a bit and get my head around all the settings

etc..

So I would say a lot.

Whats the D70's rated shutter actuations?

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 15:40

So say a D70 thats done 8500 actuations is relatively new?

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 21:30

thepharcyde said:
how do you check?

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/index.html

http://drchung.new21.net/previewextractor/

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 22:10

nolimit said:
I purchased 2nd hand Nikon D70 from the OcUk members market which had around 10k and the shutter died after another 10k in my hands.

It can all depend. realistically I would say around 25-30k in average.

The D50/D70s might be better since it was released after the D70.

Seems you just had some bad luck.

What condition was the camera in when you bought it?

Maybe it was treated badly in the previous owners care...

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 22:15

robmiller said:
Shutters can go at any time though really. 50k is just an MTBF, there are bound to be some that break at 20k and some that chug right on until 100k.

I guess its time to ditch the paranoia and get shooting...

easyrider · 19 May 2008 at 22:46

thepharcyde said:
Thank you, I googled after posting and have tried the above two but the first does not show it and the 2nd does not work for my Nikon D60

Upload a unprocessed Jpeg to Flickr

Click more properties and you will see the

easyrider · 21 May 2008 at 12:12

nolimit said:
It was in good nick, then again I took it to Mongolian country side and did a bit of "long way around " type of journey and the shutter died slowly.

Just checked one of the 1st photos I shot with the D70 and the shutter count was 8774.

Wow what a conicidence