What is the shutter count of an Olympus Evolt camera?
In case you want to buy 2nd hand piece, you might want to check if the seller has been a machine gunner off-loading a DSLR camera with almost exhaustive shutter count to you. This is a very important risk to consider - together with the price, cost of repair - just-in-case and warranty availability, since each camera model has their max shutter count reliability information. It is like buying a car and seeing the pedometer/odometer. This is one way of measuring how honest the seller is, when he/she said that it is infrequently used, while the shutter count is very high, for a piece he/she declared 1 year old for example.
Olympus E-1 / E-500 DSLR
1) power on
2) open CF door
3) press both "->" & "OK" together.
4) press shutter once, follow by up, dwn, left, right
5) repeat step 4 again..reading on "R" is the shutter counts
Olympus E-3 / E-510 DSLR
1) power on
2) open CF door
3) press both "menu" & "ok" together.
4) press shutter once, follow by up, dwn, left, right
5) repeat step 4 again..reading on "R" is the shutter counts
Note: The steps for E-3 is definitely confirmed as I have one and I have tried it.
Now what is a high shutter count? For a 1 year old camera, if the shutter count is less than 10,000 that is quite low. This is just over 27 pictures per day, or slightly more than once every hour.
If the shutter count is < 50,000 that is pretty high for 1 year old camera.
This is very close to 137 images per day, or about 5-6 images per hour.
If the shutter count is near 100,000 for a one year old camera, that is like the camera took over 270 pictures per day. That is about 11 pictures per hour. It is up to you which number you consider high, but to me for 1 year old camera, 100,000 shutter count is extremely high up there.
A mid range DSLR usually has about 50,000 max shutter count, but it does not mean the camera will break apart after 50,000 shutter count. It just means the is enough wear and tear, and at any time, the shutter (a very important part of DSLR) will fail.
A pro-range DSLR usually has about 150,000 or more max shutter count.
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