MT Shooter wrote:
I have a local photojournalist who still shoots with two Nikon D3s's. One has a shutter count of 1.8 MILLION, the other one only has a shutter count of 1.2 MILLION (Neither has had the shutters replaced). Shutters can last a VERY long time, or they can fail prematurely, there is no way to know when they will fail until they actually do.
I think I have done this calculation here before regarding this camera. Nikon D3s was released almost 3000 days ago. That camera has averaged over 600 shutter releases a day. I can only imagine that it must have been set up in some sort of time lapse situation over an extended period of time with over 99.9% of the captures being completely ignored.