I'm not one to trade cameras off, so it matters little to me, but it certainly would to those who deal in the used camera market. Resale: As demonstrated by the aforementioned threads, the shutter count can be used to show how much a camera has been used. If you've shot 20,000 frames and have 3 good keepers, maybe it tells you that 'spray & pray' isn't working out for you. There's no way I could have afforded to pay for the processing on over 1,300 rolls of film (50,000/36) in the last 3 years! That factor alone shows how the cameras have paid for themselves. While the instant feedback of the digital preview has something to do with this, I think a lot of it is the affordability of experimentation and practice. I think I'm a better photographer now than I was before I got my K10D's. Practice: Certainly, the more you shoot, the better you should get. Since I use them to make money and therefore they HAVE to work, I probably should start thinking about buying their replacements when they are somewhere in the 50,000 actuations neighborhood. There is certainly no guarantee that the shutter block or anything else in the camera will last 100,000 cycles, and I don't expect the camera to implode at actuation 100,001, but it's a baseline. Life Span: 100,000 cycles is the rated life expectancy of the K10D shutter. As I thought about it, there are a couple of interesting things that can be derived from this: The first time this question came up, I wondered how much I cared too. Well, Dave, I guess I don't care if you care! )
I've got two K10D's, and I can't tell you which is which. Photo ME lists the number as 'Shutter Count.' If someone has a good utility for the Mac to check this number, post it here.
I use a Mac, but I have XP on a boot camp partition that I run a few things on - one being Photo ME (). If you don't know how to check your EXIF to get a good count, there are a few threads in here on that topic ( & for starters). Remember: File name is not an accurate way to count actual shutter cycles, especially if you use the digital DOF preview much, but there are other ways to mess it up too. If you didn't, post your count and maybe we'll do this again in a couple years. If you participated in this thread:, remind us how many shutter actuations you had then, and how many you have now.
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