Contingency Plans, Concerns About an Aging Camera

LincsRP wrote in post #14776731
My take on it is that machine gun mode does the wearing out faster. Precision parts do warm up and that would accelerate wear?

While machine gunning sounds like a way to get the shot- there are others out there that purport that the way to get that single shot is to - practice- and take it as a single shot. true- if we had a camera that took hundreds of shots per second- machine gunning would make sense. At 8 FPS- the difference in between shots is - 1/8th of a second. With practice- you should be able to get the better shot more accurately by practicing your timing- or so the theory goes.

It's even more of a difference at say- 3 to 6 fps... the lower the FPS, the better your chances of getting a single shot to work - over machine gunning..

The other side of the coin- is the looks from the others that can't do 8 FPS - when they hear your camera rattling off 8 FPS! Pretty sure nearly every 7D owner is guilty of this one! Sometimes, one does things- because they can!

wayne.robbins wrote in post #14779701
The other side of the coin- is the looks from the others that can't do 8 FPS - when they hear your camera rattling off 8 FPS! Pretty sure nearly every 7D owner is guilty of this one! Sometimes, one does things- because they can!

Guilty of that exact thing.

Just sounded cool when I had the 7D! Part of the features of the camera, so you might as well use it -- and if it attracts attention, at least you'll get some funnily candid shots.

I just looked at a 50D that when I tested it had 147,890 shutters. Remember that shutter is only rated for 100,000.

Keep shooting and quit worrying. I average about 25k a year myself and have no worries of failure. When it does just go in for an oil change and get her replaced

create a fund for your new camera, put in 10-20 bux a month into a piggy bank, and when your camera dies, use that to buy a new one. It should be enough to buy a cheaper replacement or new replacement depending on how long your gear lasts (which should be very long).

I dont even think about the failure on my camera, shoot away.

wayne.robbins wrote in post #14779701
The other side of the coin- is the looks from the others that can't do 8 FPS - when they hear your camera rattling off 8 FPS! Pretty sure nearly every 7D owner is guilty of this one! Sometimes, one does things- because they can!

I had coffee with my friend and her friends, and due to the wind I was taking portraits of her in short well-timed bursts, They heard my 7D go off and went "Holy crap how fast does it shoot" so I ended up burning off a good 20 shots holding down the trigger to demonstrate the 8FPS thing.. xD

But yeah for me, i use the 8fps because tiny birds.. 8fps helps get me priceless things like this:

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