Highest Mileage Shutter?

Just curious as to what people are getting shutter count wise from their cameras. I am current just over 141K on my 50D as I shoot a lot of foot races. Still going strong but wondering if people are losing shutters over the 150k mark at all. Wondering if anyone has made the million mark yet without a replaced shutter.

At the Ipex show in May 2010, I spoke with a man who was involved with a company where they digitalized ordinary books. Scanning with a conventional scanner took too long, so they photographed the pages instead.
They had designed a mechanical automatic page turner, which flipped the page between each picture. Then in the rig there was a 1Ds Mark III taking photographs of each page. This camera, sitting perfectly still in a rig, just taking picture after picture (each picture was sent to external storage as they were taken) had a very nice life, of course. No bumping or rough handling.
The shutters lasted about three million exposures. After that, they were worn out, but the camera still looked like new, so they had the shutter replaced and kept on going.

This is the longest shutter life I've heard about, but it's of course not at all the kind of life most of our cameras live.

I've done four shutters over the years.
My 10D had it's first shutter let go somewhere between about 160K-180K.
The shutter that replaced it died at about 120K.
My 1DMkII had a shutter let go at 187,787 and the replacement shutter in that is still going strong at about 150K.
My 40D died at somewhere around 170K.
I have no real idea of what my 1D MkIII has done, but I'd guess it's around 180K.

I know of a 20D that has racked up over 200K-250K shots. This 20D was issued to me as a backup when I worked for a newspaper. It became my work horse over a 1D MkII.

It was issued to me in 2005 and when I resigned in 2007, I estimated it had over 150,000 on it. The 20D is now property of the advertising department graphics department. I called into the newspaper this time last year and it was still going strong. The pictorial editor estimates around 200K on it.

I'm flying home in a month. I'll call in to see how the old girl is going.

BTW,, my 20D which I bought 2nd hand in 2008 would have well over 150K on it. My 50D over 100K..

A while ago on here I remember someone posting a shutter count of ~750k on a 5d2

Interesting... thanks for the feedback. What exactly happens when a shutter dies? Just stop working? or do pieces actually break off? Whats the going rate for a new shutter these days?

There was a thread about a shutter failure about a month or so ago. Lemme see if I can find it...
Not the ones I'm initially looking for but possibilities to include what is explained in the thread:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=73420
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=73567

Excellent examples:
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1305569
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1284331

This should get you started. I searched for "shutter broken." It's been a lot longer than initially thought!

Replacement varies based on how bad it is. I've heard starting at $300 (just shutter) and up. I suspect model (eg: rebel, xxD, 5D, 1D series) in ascending order of cost. YMMV!

I'm pretty sure my 1D Mk2 is on around 160k.. will check later.

My 1dmk2n blew a shutter 2 weeks out of warranty, at 54000 clocks.

A different 2n blew at 400,000 ish.

They're the only two shutters I have had fail.

-My Xsi lasted 130,000 clicks.
-You can tell when you see pictures with a black area in them, it's your shutter. Also an error code will appear at some point.

-Here's a neat webs site with shutter life expectancy

http://www.olegkikin.c​om/shutterlife/

I'd be pretty stoked to get 400k out of anything, including any 1D...

dansmail26 wrote in post #16463880
-My Xsi lasted 130,000 clicks.
-You can tell when you see pictures with a black area in them, it's your shutter. Also an error code will appear at some point.

-Here's a neat webs site with shutter life expectancy

http://www.olegkikin.c​om/shutterlife/

Thanks! Never knew that site was out there.

Canuck wrote in post #16463556
There was a thread about a shutter failure about a month or so ago. Lemme see if I can find it...
Not the ones I'm initially looking for but possibilities to include what is explained in the thread:
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=73420
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=73567

Excellent examples:
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1305569
https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1284331

This should get you started. I searched for "shutter broken." It's been a lot longer than initially thought!

Replacement varies based on how bad it is. I've heard starting at $300 (just shutter) and up. I suspect model (eg: rebel, xxD, 5D, 1D series) in ascending order of cost. YMMV!

Thanks! Great examples. Helps a lot.

A friend of mine has a 20d that she bought with 250k+ clicks, she has used it quite a bit and it's still going strong!

I have met at least 3 photo studio shops that were using a 7D and all were over 300K on the original shutter. I just rolled over 10K in my 6D after 5 months. I think I average around 20k a year for a hobbyist thats pretty good lol.