DJBAD

I had 1 shutter fail on a Canon 60D after 13,000 clicks. Quick fix and no other issues. Been shooting for 50+ years.

JCGammack Loc: Hayesville, Iowa

I had the same experience with a Mamiya/Sekor SLR. Bought it in 72 and it died in 76.

richardsaccount

Had a Nikon D80 give up the ghost. An ERR message came up. Luckily it happened the day after I took
some photos that were important. I belong to a camera collectors group. I took the camera to one of our meetings.
I passed it around and asked the members if they ever experienced this. One fellow was holding the camera, he
looks my way and exclaimed, this camera is hot! I thought that he was kidding. I replied that I purchased it a a local
authorized dealer. He replied back, no it is really HOT! He handed it back. it sure was, The OEM battery was melting down. I removed i and put it in a sink that was in the room. I can't say if the battery was the cause of the ERR message or not. It has taken residence in a drawer since then, :snm07:

niteman3d Loc: South Central Pennsylvania, USA

My Nikon D80 bricked about the time I ordered it's replacement, a D7000. If I recall it had a fatal error message that spelled expensive repair, so it's still sitting here somewhere, awaiting disposal of some sort.

uhaas2009

My canon rebel 300 d-shutter would stop and I could push how I wanted. Got rid of it wasn’t worth the money to fix it. The Nikon 7000 the focus died and this was a common problem with this model. My Nikon 810 is going. A company who provided the Nikon 3000 and those shutter died even they was after every season maintenance. It’s ugly when this happens

Mtpage Loc: Pennsylvania

I got a Canon EOS digital camera in 2003 and used it for many years. But it definitly 'died' on me after about 10 or 12 years. My cannon film camera is fine though. It seems that digital cameras do not have the lifespan of a film camera but I can't imagin life without a digital now.

kdogg Loc: Gallipolis Ferry WV

Only camera I've had shutter work done on was an old speed graphic press camera. That was back in the 70's. Still working great today.

alamomike47 Loc: San Antonio, Texas

Had three film camera that worn out. Two were Canons and the third was a Yashica. The Canons were point and shoot the wife used. I can't even begin to tell the number rolls of film she when through. The Yashica Electro 35 was my rangefinder camera and one day it just quit. Took to the camera the repair shop and was told go buy a new camera. So I got Sony digital. No digital camera has died. Still have the Yashica on display on the home office.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

I bought a Yaschica Electro from the BX in 1969. I liked that camera a lot and got some great pics in Thailand. I wish I'd have kept mine for a paperweight.

alamomike47 Loc: San Antonio, Texas

I was in Thailand 68-69. Got a Pentax camera. Ex wife sold my camera. Once she was ex I got Electro 35.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

When I was in high school, my parents gave me a Kodak Instamatic 100, which lasted until just before I graduated from college, and its shutter died. I purchased an inexpensive Yashica rangefinder camera, then a more expensive Canon rangefinder camera. Since I was then in Grad School - and had command of how I used much of my time - I probably took more photos with that camera than with any other camera. Then I went for an evening walk with my girlfriend {now my wife of 40+ years} around the resevoir. Only when we reached the end of our walk, did we learn what everyone else in town seemed to know - the bridge was out - so we ‘forded’ the river. Only when we reached the dry land on the other side did I remember the Canon camera which had been hanging from my neck {and in the water} all the way across. A trip to the repair person confirmed my fear - the Canon had been hopelessly soaked with muddy river water. So I purchased a Pentax SLR. A few years later it became damp at Niagara Falls - another camera ruined. Then I had a Pentax SLR for 12+ years and a Canon SLR for 11+ years. I knew this couldn’t continue. When I moved to digital, I went through 2 cameras in less than eight years. In each case, the Digital Rebel showed signs of processor problems, then abruptly died. At this point, I had enough of lower-tier Canon DSLRs, so I purchased a Pentax K-30. It turned out that those cameras had issues with the body controlling aperture, so that mechanism broke, so I got some old film lenses and continued, by controlling aperture at the lens.

So, looking over a fifty year period, I’ve had problems, but only with Instamatic did the shutter fail.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

My last two film SLRs lasted over ten years each; I have reached the conclusion that I should think of digital cameras as I do of computers - start thinking ‘replacement’ after five years. I’m thinking of going back to film.

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

Did either of those two "lower-tier" Canon Rebels use a 5.0 Mp sensor? If so, they may have been part of that batch of 5.0 Mp senors which were bad, like what happened to my Minolta DiMAGE 7Hi when it gave up the ghost in 2006.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

No, they were 8mp sensors.
I wasn’t ready to try digital until they were at least 6mp {actually, at least 3000 pixels horizontally and at least 2000 pixels vertically, what testing said I was getting from film}.

jims203 Loc: Connecticut

Fuji E-950 point and shoot one day decided to stop retracting the lens.
No drops or anything else done to cause this problem.