Timeline for Will too much time-lapse photography reduce a DSLR's life, or cause any other damage?
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| Nov 14, 2012 at 13:48 | comment | added | Rene | You will probably run out of memory card space long before your shutter collapses. | |
| May 27, 2011 at 19:29 | comment | added | Andres | @Bradford Benn Magic Lantern has a special feature for that. It can't take 18mp pictures, but it's very useful for doing timelapses without killing the shutter. | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 2:15 | comment | added | tomm89 | My Canon SX210 seems to have a mechanical shutter because you can hear when it open and closes, so the rate is likely to be higher than DSLRs, but not infinite | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 1:49 | comment | added | Itai | @tomm89 - No it does not compare. Many (at least ultra-compacts) point-and-shoot actually use was what is called an electronic shutter, without moving parts. It can be used with no limit. You may notice some cameras have both and will use the electronic ones on high-speed mode (almost any time its 10 FPS+). | |
| Feb 2, 2011 at 0:15 | comment | added | tomm89 | Does somebody know if the shutter actuation rating of a DSLR can be compared to a Point and shoot camera? Which would last more? | |
| Jan 7, 2011 at 18:16 | comment | added | Bradford Benn | I wonder if there is a way to leave the hardware shutter open and use the software shutter. It might (and I am guessing) work using the "Mirror Up" feature. I would be interested as well as to what you find out. | |
| Jan 2, 2011 at 20:28 | comment | added | Itai | @artknish - No. Shooting video does not use the shutter, it simply reads the sensor at quick intervals. This is sometimes called 'electronic shutter' as opposed to 'mechanical shutter'. No mechanical DSLR shutter than I know of could shoot at 24 FPS (or 30) for that matter. This is one reason you get certain motion artifacts while recording video. Just Google 'Jello effect' for examples. | |
| Jan 2, 2011 at 19:29 | comment | added | Srikanth | May be a dumb question: Does this also mean that shooting videos will eat away that number pretty quickly? | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 14:50 | vote | accept | Srikanth | ||
| Dec 29, 2010 at 20:20 | comment | added | Reid | For a ballpark figure, there are 86,400 seconds in a day. So not much more than a day at one exposure per second; adjust as needed for your desired interval. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 18:27 | comment | added | jrista | The Canon 550D has a 100,000 shutter actuation rating, like all the rest of the rebels back to the 450D. | |
| Dec 29, 2010 at 16:37 | history | answered | Itai | CC BY-SA 2.5 |