What is the life expectancy of YOUR camera?

[AntZ]

Some camera shutter stats of most major models.
Camera Shutter Life | Sitemap
It looks like user submit data rather than lab tests. Maybe that gives the data more value because it is reall world?

[Iguanasan]

12,000+ ??!!?? I hope that's wrong. I'm already hitting almost 5000 and it's only been 6 months

[tirediron]

I think what the graph means (Unless the shutter is marked as 'Dead') is that those are the current use statistics, NOT where the shutters have died.

[Iguanasan]

I hope you are right, tirediron, but that doesn't appear to be what it says:

"Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 12,286.3" for the Canon EOS Rebel XSi (450D). :(

[JAS_Photo]

You can make numbers say anything. Think about it a bit. How many have actually had the rebel long enough to put in 50k plus clicks and that is added to those few cameras that were defective from the start and averaged out. This is all consumer data and people will and can do something to screw you up no matter what it is and for no real reason.

[AntZ]

I found this on another site and it might be more useful
Canon has recently disclosed the Rated Shutter Life for all EOS models:

Model - Rated Shutter Life
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS / 1000D - 100,000
Canon EOS Digital Rebel T1i / 500D - 100,000
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi / 450D - 100,000
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi / 400D - 50,000
Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT / 350D - 50,000
Canon EOS 50D - 100,000
Canon EOS 40D - 100,000
Canon EOS 30D - 100,000
Canon EOS 20D - 50,000
Canon EOS 5D Mark II - 150,000
Canon EOS 5D - 100,000
Canon EOS 1D Mark III - 300,000
Canon EOS 1D Mark II N - 200,000
Canon EOS 1DS Mark III - 300,000
Canon EOS 1DS Mark II - 200,000

Full list with links

I think with the first link I posted, the data for failure is valid as it is complete(ie that shutter has died), and indeed some shutters have died early. The data for the alive shutters is incomplete because they could keep running for much much longer.

[tirediron]

I hope you are right, tirediron, but that doesn't appear to be what it says:

"Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 12,286.3" for the Canon EOS Rebel XSi (450D). :(

I missed that line. I would be very upset to found I'd bought a camera that had such a poorly made key component. That sounds to me more like a design issue that should be addressed by product recall if true.

[Marko]

I think raiven's logic is bang on here. 12,000 seems WAY too low and this camera consistently gets decent reviews if memory serves.

[kat]

Here comes the stupid question..what do they mean... like your shutter will fail? Can you fix that or it that it for the camera? I'm in big trouble if it's low numbers like that :(

[AntZ]

To quote a famous book "Don't Panic!"

My second post has more realistic numbers. Like anything you will get early failures. I think possibly what this does highlight is that just because something is new doesn't mean it can't fail. So if you were doing a critcal shoot it would be advisable to have a second set of gear.