If you want to check your camera’s shutter life expectancy though there is a free and useful database here which provides actual user shutter data for many different DSLR models and brands. Sometimes it ends up being less or more before it wears out. But this doesn’t mean that this is how many actuaitons you will actually get from your shutter. That is not much and some people may shoot that many frames in only 1 year.īut on some of the higher level Canon DSLR bodies, like the 5D and 1D Series bodies, Canon rates them for as many as 150,000 actuations.
On some of the lower level Canon DSLR bodies, shutters are rated for as few as only 50,000 actuations before they might need to be replaced. This means it is one element that can still wear out from steady usage over time. If you are wondering though why it matters how many times the shutter has been used on your camera, it is because on DSLRs the shutter is one of the few remaining components that is actually still mechanical.
#Canon 40d shutter count how to#
So in this post I am going to teach you how to freely extract this information from a Canon DSLR camera, which happens to be information that is normally stored in real-time within most DSLR camera brands, but not so openly provided to the camera owner. If you read the title to this article and wondered what it means, actuations in photographic terms refers to the amount of times the shutter has been fired/cycled on a SLR or DSLR camera.