topic Re: Canon 70D in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Canon 70D

bkieffer — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:10:11 GMT

My question is when using manual settings & a long shutter delay will this damage or shorten the life of my Canon 70D ?

I read somewhere that doing that will run up your shutter count & shorten it's life ??

Re: Canon 70D

RobertTheFat — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:32:19 GMT

@bkieffer wrote:
My question is when using manual settings & a long shutter delay will this damage or shorten the life of my Canon 70D ?
I read somewhere that doing that will run up your shutter count & shorten it's life ??

I suppose it's conceivable that if you had the shutter speed set to B ("bulb"), the opening and closing of the shutter might be recorded as separate events (although I can't imagine why they'd make it work that way). But either way, the actual motions of the shutter components would be the same, so it's hard to see why it would affect the life of the camera. In any case, remember that the predicted lifetime in shutter clicks is just an educated guess.

Where exactly did you find that yarn?

Re: Canon 70D

bkieffer — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:14:57 GMT

I don't remmber , it was some time back when I was reserching how to get the shutter count on the 70D ?

Re: Canon 70D

Waddizzle — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:29:19 GMT

@bkieffer wrote:
I don't remmber , it was some time back when I was reserching how to get the shutter count on the 70D ?

Forget about it. Enjoy the camera.

If the shutter decides to fail, it will kick the bucket whenver it wants to, and there is nothing you can do to change or prevent that from happening short of not using the camera. Enjoy the camera. This is the stuff ulcers are made of.

Re: Canon 70D

TTMartin — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:25:54 GMT

@Waddizzle wrote:
@bkieffer wrote:
I don't remmber , it was some time back when I was reserching how to get the shutter count on the 70D ?
Forget about it. Enjoy the camera.

If the shutter decides to fail, it will kick the bucket whenver it wants to, and there is nothing you can do to change or prevent that from happening short of not using the camera. Enjoy the camera. This is the stuff ulcers are made of.

I will say environmental factors, especially extreme cold can impact shutter life. But, other than that I agree, just use your camera and don't worry about it.