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ricosuave
04-25-2009, 04:39 PM
Was thinking of picking this up off a coworker:

Canon EOS Rebel xti SLR camera

10.1 megapixel
2.5-inch LCD monitor
self cleaning sensor

Includes EFS 18-55 mm f3.5-5.6 II lens
8 GB CF card
high speed charger

$300
Bukka
04-25-2009, 05:09 PM
Seems pretty dec to me.

It's probably be a good idea to find out how many photos have been taken with the camera.
It has a rated life of 50,000 on the shutter.
Trini
04-25-2009, 05:13 PM
thats a pretty decent deal
ricosuave
04-25-2009, 05:18 PM
Originally posted by Bukka
Seems pretty dec to me.

It's probably be a good idea to find out how many photos have been taken with the camera.
It has a rated life of 50,000 on the shutter.

thanks for the insight.

any idea how to tell? is there a counter or something?
Bukka
04-25-2009, 07:06 PM
There isn't a way to know 100% on a non "pro" canon body..

You just have to kind of take what they say with a grain of salt.
Gibson
04-26-2009, 01:48 PM
Oh wow, I thought most DSLR's were rated to over 100,000 shutter actuations. Mind you, it's not like 50,000 is a small number...
Bukka
04-27-2009, 01:58 PM
Originally posted by Gibson
Oh wow, I thought most DSLR's were rated to over 100,000 shutter actuations. Mind you, it's not like 50,000 is a small number...
Canons rebel series are always 50,000 their XXD and up are 100,000 to 150,000...maybe even 200,000?
bcylau
04-29-2009, 11:52 AM
Goto http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/canon_eos30d.htm and enter in your info, helps everyone out.

Shutter life is expressed as mean time between failures or MTBF, and is a weibull distrubuted function. Which means, more often than not, your shutter will not last to rated amount, but there will be an odd "outliers" that lasts multiple times the rated amount.

Anyways to answer the question of Canon MTBF from literature,
Rebel - 50k (only stated after xti, but their shutters havent changed)
XXd - 100k
5d- 100k
5d mk2 - 150k
1d to 1dsmk2 - 200k
1dmk3 and 1dsmk3 - 300k

There are some free exif viewer you can use to check the shutter count if you have a raw or jpeg (dont remember which one). Just google "how to check shutter count for rebel/ canon"
Gibson
04-29-2009, 11:52 PM
Holy god, whoever has that one with over 1,000,000 actuations is lucky.