One question I have about shutter life.
It used to be that the manufacturer would suggest that the
shutters would last at least 50,000 or 150,000 cycles.
Now, I wonder if they actually mean MTBF 50,000 cycles. This
would mean that they expect a shutter to fail in every 1/50,000
cameras every "click cycle".
In the case of digital cameras, I would believe that they've
followed the pattern of every other ISO 900x manufacturer and
gone to a MTBF type of number.
Example: computer hardrives are typically rated at 500,000 hour
MTBF. That DOESN'T mean that you can expect your hardrive to
last for 57 years, but that one out of every 500,000 hardrives
will fail every hour.
AG-shooting old tried and true stuff-Schnozz
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