LIFE EXPECTANCY OF YOUR CHAMBER [OR THE FUNERAL OF YOUR CHAMBER]

Can you imagine the funeral of your camera? When I think about it, my hair gets on end. You will say that I am an exaggerated, but some of us have a very intimate relationship with our SLR camera. A reflex camera is, for many, like his girlfriend, or as an extension of his person: they understand her and she understands them, they provide her with the greatest care and attention. After all, they had to pay a high amount of money for it, and over time to that economic value has been added an incalculable sentimental value. But ... the cameras die, friend. Yes, yes, exactly as it happens to humans, a camera lives to fulfill a noble task: to portray the beauty (or sadness) of the things that surround us, to give shape and color to our interpretation of the world, but once its life expectancy, the camera begins to manifest alterations in its behavior, dementias, anomalies, and when its time comes, it dies. It paralyzes. Isn't it tremendous? But this is not an issue that should concern us, just like the day of the birth of any baby, nobody worries about the moment that person will reach old age. However, today I would like to explain in more detail what the life expectancy of the cameras is , how it is measured and how it can be found .

HOW DO YOU MEASURE THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF A CAMERA?

In number of shots. Just as the amount of kilometers that a car has traveled can give us an idea of its state of health and the life expectancy that it has left, for the cameras it is the number of times the camera has shot a photo what we Give an idea of the life of it .

HOW MANY "SHOTS" DOES A CAMERA LIVE?

About 100,000, up to 150,000 even . The truth is that most brands move over 100,000 shots as life expectancy, although some firms such as Canon present some of their most advanced or professional models with about 200,000 shots, in theory. I must say that it also depends on the way those shots were made. For example, always shooting in burst can "tire" the camera more than if we shoot photos individually.

YES BUT… HOW MANY “SHOTS” WILL MY CAMERA LIVE EXACTLY?

However, estimating the life of a camera is not something that we will find very explicitly in the camera case along with the specifications . It is an approximate value, and therefore if a life of 100,000 shots is expected from a camera, that does not take away from reaching more, or perhaps less. As with humans, the life expectancy of people is known depending on the country or continent but it is not known with infallible accuracy. If you still want to find out the life expectancy of your camera, there are Websites where they indicate, in an indicative way, the life expectancy of our camera depending on the brand and the model. For example at https://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/ we have a good database of various camera models, although we may not find our model. Also say that the data on this website are very indicative, based on mere statistics, so be careful.

AND HOW MANY SHOTS HAVE I BEEN ALREADY ..?

If you are curious to find out the shots you have taken with your camera there is a very simple method. We simply visit this page: https://www.myshuttercount.com/ where we will provide a photo taken with our camera (photo as recent as possible) and the same page will give us a series of useful data including the number of shots taken until that moment. To do the test on the page, click on the Select file button , next to "Select photo" and once our photo is selected, click on "Upload file" . The photo can be JPG, RAW, the only thing is that it has to be original, as it was taken with the camera, without it having been edited or retouched. After clicking on “Upload file” the information will appear. The number of shots appears as "Shutter count" .

100,000 SHOTS IS LITTLE?

I assure you it is a lot. Obviously there will be users who make 1,000 shots a day every day, those do not count, but for a normal foot user who uses the camera with certain frequency to document trips, events, as well as to perform some exercise and photographic project from time to time how much, I assure you that 100,000 shots is not small. Moreover, it is very likely that your camera will be considered as "obsolete" before you reach half of those 100,000 shots. Take the test, upload a photo to the page I told you before and see how many shots you have been since you first bought it. You will get a surprise. Did you find this article helpful? Please spread it if so.

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