Shutter life on Canon Rebel

[Zeus]

I have just read that the shutter life of a Canon Rebel is 50,000 shots I am at 56,000 should I sell it now before it dies or will it last another 50,000?
I was hoping it would last longer than one year.

[SNAFU]

How do you know it? where in the menus is the counter located?

[the boss]

Don't believe what you read.

Even canon doesn't have a guarentee on how long the shutters will last.

[archman]

From what I've read, the 20D is supposed to have a shutter life of 100,000 cycles. But the 10D was only supposed to have around 20K.

Now, I'll bet you candideye has WELL over 20,000 cycles on his 10D...and I'll also bet he hasn't had to replace the shutter.

So I think Oly is right...it's a crapshoot.

[candideye]

I'm at about 24,000 now, so not too much over 20,000. Haven't had to replace the shutter, but I've been thinking more and more lately of replacing the camera itself (has nothing to do with shutter cycles).

[deliriouspixel]

I think my 10D started to Err99 just over 40K but im not sure about that. I sent
it in under warranty since I had it less than a year and they replaced the
shutter, cleaned it, and calibrated it along with all my lenses.

I suppose that since youre still under warranty you could try killing it off by
shooting the shit out of it and send it in. If you cant kill it, send it in anyway
along with your lenses and tell them youre experiencing intermittent err99
and request your body and lenses be calibrated under warranty. That should
get you a new shutter and everything calibrated. Then you can shoot it a
bit more and sell it as having a fresh shutter assembly instead of one that is
probably gonna crap out.

[Assman]

There is a thing called MTBF - (Mean Time Between Failures) which is a complex way of specifying how reliable something is.

While there info available on the net is contradictory, it appears as if the MTBF of the 300D shutter mechanism is 30,000 to 50,000 operations.

Note that this is not necessarily the *life* of the shutter mechanism, just the sort-of average expected number of operations of the shutter before it breaks down. (Although realistically, if it fails, you'd likely get it replaced anyway)

Your 300D could easily work for another 50k shots, you never know.

Personally, I'd milk it for all its worth. How much is a clapped-out 300D worth nowdays compared to a new model? The longer you can keep it for, the cheaper all these neat newer models will become.