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Doug wrote:Robert wrote:
Hi Mellisa, Welcome to the forum.
This digital film is free, if you mess up it didn't cost a dime. When you get it right it's very rewarding.
Welcome Melissa, what Robert says is not quite true.
If you were to capture 1000 shots each week your camera would be very likely to need major repair or replacement inside 2 years.
That's still very much cheaper than film ever was
Really? Well, that's not so good. What happens to it?
I don't think I've captured 1000 shots per week since I've had it. Maybe about a third of that though.
Now I feel like I should be worried! This new camera is like my baby! lol
Well when I made that statement I was referring to the the cost of the film media, not the wear and tear on the camera hardware, which I think is fairly clear in my text.
If Doug wants to introduce the wear and tear aspect then I suppose that is a factor. But, I suspect if Mellisa is so keen and takes 1000 exposures a week over two years that will be over 100,000 exposures. from her own estimate of 300/week that will be 31,000 over two years.
If Mellisa takes that many images, I suspect after two years she may feel a replacement with a more capable camera may be justified at that time? Perhaps a D7200?
As a matter of interest I checked out the shutter failure rates for the D3000 and D5000 (Not specifically the D3100).
This data is not verified so take it with a pinch of salt, ignore the extremes. Remember most people just take pix, they don't usually take the time to report non failure. The camera has a 12 month guarantee, if it survives the first year of fairly busy usage I would venture that it will be OK for a lot more clicks.
http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/
I feel I use my D200's pretty intensively, they have <15,000 clicks. It's rare on this forum to hear of a shutter failure in a consumer camera. Occasionally one of the pro users has a problem but that will usually be with a heavily used pro camera.
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Robert.