That, or some active sports photographer with the mentality of "If I keep the shutter pressed for long enough with burst mode on, one of the images' gotta be good eventually".
The 5D mark II is a tank in photography services especially in Vietnam, where lots of people still buy and sell it regularly and use it for multiple low-cost studio services. I've seen lots of 5D mark II that have shutter counts over 1 mil, but never over 2 mil like this one!
I wonder if you contact Canon if the original owner had registered it with them. I'm sure Canon would love to know. The 5DmkII is an absolute tank and a solid workhorse. I picked one up a couple of years ago and have had amazing photos from it. I also have the R5, but I often go back to the 5DmkII. What a find you had.
My 5D II's were still going strong when I retired them at 261,000 and 282,000. The only camera that I shot the shutter out of was a Nikon F with motor drive that I used to shoot sports back in ancient times. The shutter just came apart at 74,000 plus frames. Cameras are amazingly durable these days.
yup, or stopmotion. I'm currently using my 40D for LEGO stopmotion (because I don't have to take it off the tripod to change batteries. Powergrips ftw!).
They already did. The r5 has a 500k rated life of the mechanical shutter. And electronic shutter basically uses none. I can easily shoot 1k shots a day only spending around 5 shutter actuations
The shutter life is more or less just an estimate as to how long a camera's shutter will last on average. That doesn't mean it will stop working when it reaches the advertised count, and some people will get more or less than what the advertised life is. That being said, it is possible if you're lucky to get 2M+ photos on a camera, if you don't mind paying to have the shutter replaced a few times (assuming you can get 200-300k shots per replacement). On some of the more expensive models, this might be worth it as a shutter replacement can cost about $300 each time, and if you do it 5 times for a camera that costs $3000+ it might make sense versus buying another camera. On consumer grade ($500-$1000 cameras) it generally doesn't make sense to replace the shutter more than once. I wouldn't do it on a camera that was less than bout $600-700 though as being a break-even point because you'll have spent about half the value of the camera on a new shutter. But I have heard of some people also going well over 500k shots on their pro bodies before needing replacement. How you treat the camera will also impact how long the shutter lasts.
My 5D MK 2 has survived since 2011 when I bought it, it traveled the world with me, currently now its shutter count is 321191. I am still using it as my backup camera :-) it is an amazing machine.
Shutter probably replaced a few times and if used for Timelapse’s then you put a lot of milage on the count fast. The 5D2 was a notorious time lapse machine. I had one with about 1,5 mill with 2 replaced shutters👍🏼 so it’s not a unicorn 😊
@@faramineuzefotos2975 That's because you had it done by an official or at least officially licensed repair center. I could replace it for you, but without resetting the counter.
As a photojournalist, I've heared about several Nikon D700 that had their shutters replaced only after 1 million shots and the same about the Nikon D5. D700's expected shutter life time is 150k actuations, D5's-400k. By the way: My Nikon D610 with 170+k shutter actuations looks not as good as this 5D Mari II, so this 5D is in the great shape
Just recently bought 5d mark 2 with 71,000 shutter count for £169 here in UK from a local camera shop with a six month warranty. Really love the handling and quality of video straight out of camera. Hope i can get it up to 2 milion shutter count 🙏 which will take me many years🙂
Test it to the limit! Suggestion: Make a timelapse photo/movie of your life/interior untill the camera DIES. Jot down that number, make us bet: A)2.5M+ B) 3.0M+ C) 3.5M+ D)5.0M+ and choose a winner who received this unique camera with a cool story. Then upload the video of the interior/life in high speed X100 as a tribute.
same my canon 6d i bought at a 135,934k shutters so i have ran it up to about 200,000 im hoping mine lasts for a long time there is a wedding photographer here on youtube who has a 6d that he bought brand new and it is at 860K+ shutters and still going
Looking forward to seeing what you have planned with this camera. I started following your channel as a NEX-5R user and you having the best vids on that cam. I picked up a 5D Mkii a few months back and am loving it so far. Can't wait to see your take on it.
I don't know what tech they are using, but something I could think of where such high shutter counts would occur would be roller-coaster pictures, or other fun-fair style uses, where many people get their picture automatically taken in a quick succession. Definitely fits the non-existent outer-wear, too, since you'd probably install it in an enclosure, to be remotely triggered, and never touch it until you decommission it. Maybe it'd even fit the insanely high shutter count, too, if the pictures would just be live-view pictures, without any shutter actuations whatsoever. I don't know though, if 1) the 5DM2 has truly electronic shutter only, 2) if it counts for the shutter actuations, and 3) if it's actually practical in such an usecase (especially the roller-coaster pictures), since rolling shutter would probably be somewhat bad.
i think the 5d mk2 must have an electronic ("rolling") shutter since it is capable of shooting video. as i understand it, rolling shutter actuations would not be included in the official (mechanical) count since such actuations amount only to electrical activity.
@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568 Yes the 5DII can do video, but for live view shots it first closes the shutter and then makes a normal exposure and then re-opens for live view again.
Probably was used in some automatic product photography device and was shooting 360 shots. It is not worn as it has been sitting for a few years on the device.
The shutter has probably been replaced several times by non-Canon official service centers. Only they have the tools to reset the shutter actuation counter when replacing the mechanism. A unnoficial repair center would replace the shutter and it would continue to count the old actuations.
Bought an used Nikon D750 3 years ago with ~171k in the shutter count. It just surpassed one million a week ago. :) I shot timelapse videos, an average day to night or night to day session is about 3-4000 photo on the sd card. As far as I know, still working with the original shutter.
3300 per week is like what I usually do as event photographer, some weddings happens 3000 in one day but the lol part is that I shoot everything electronic with my XH2s so I'm not touching the shutter
I have the complete opposite story. My 9 years old daughter got interested in photography and I bought a used olympus epl6 that was advertised as "like new"... well, indeed! It had only 1336 shots on it, which equals to only 3.21 shots per week in the course of 8 years. What a lack of interest in photography from that owner! lol. I can say my little girl took in a week more pictures than that camera had taken in 8 years.
The lack of wear indicated just how much it was used. Parts have been replaced over and over again. I suppose the software use to check the count only indicates the overall count rather than the count since the last reset. Around the 150~200k mark youd expect the dail to start skipping and generally errors to start popping up. around 200k mark the grip is gonna start peeling. And then theres a 5D2 issue with loose screws that can short the boards. Fascinating to thing about how it mightve been used though.
I'm seriously thinking about picking up a 5D mk2 just for some fun as a second camera. I currently use a Sony mirrorless but some of my lenses are adapted EF sigma art lenses so getting an older canon wouldn't be a huge investment. I love the look of those older chunky bodies
I ran my D3100 almost exclusively for timelapse. Not even a professional camera but has hit 400,000. Shutter still works fine but the mirror sometimes locks.
My main camera body is a Canon 5D Mark III and it's got a shutter count of 791,751 right now, which puts it at 528% its expected lifetime according to the shuttercount app. Canon makes pretty good shutters.
it probably belonged to an event photographer. On corporate events, such as seminars or launching events, I used to take more than thousands of photos each day. Yet, 2.2 million is just out of this world!!! Kudos to canon for making a real life Tank 🤣🤣
I saw a nikon d3 with 3 million clicks on it on ebay. According to the seller, it had the shutter replaced once, out of maintenance, not because it broke. Even if it died on its next shot, that's an average of 1.5 million per shutter
I've heard stories of pro bodies from this era going way past the shutter rating, but I haven't seen much proof myself. My D700 right now has about 155,000 and runs like a top.
@@lazar2175 My 40D failed with a few hundred shots on the second day of a holiday in Phoenix (from UK) fortunately I had rearranged my bag 3 times before leaving and on the 3rd time I managed to fit my 300D in, thank goodness for previous cameras! Canon fitted a new shutter box and I now use the 40D for timelapse, I do like my 40D, no idea what the shutter count is now! 🤷♂️ I have a 5DII as well, purchased from MPB UK and it only had 7000 shots, it is like new. I use that on a set of Canon FD bellows for digitising my dads slide collection.
@@grahamstretch6863 Apparently shutters on 40D had some issues, they would sometimes die early but that wasn't because they wore out, so you probably got unlucky and got that one. 40D is a nice camera, even today it takes good photos.
I have a Nikon D800 that has like almost a million, but I noticed that the counter goes up by 2 when shooting RAW+JPEG so I don't think it counts as shutter actuations.
Usually canon is the most used brand by for an example german weather surveillance. Most cameras are being used stationary and never removed during their whole life cycle and take pictures every 5 to 10 minutes.
read somewhere about a Nikon F2 film camera with more than 1M shutter actuation ... i remember once i saw a Hasselblad ad boasting about how durable its (in-body) shutter is ... that, roughly quoting the ad's text: "If you think you buy a new Hasselblad when you pay for it in a camera store or directly from the company, then rest assured that its shutter mechanism has been fired 130`000 times before leaving the company!" ... (or something like that ...) ;-) as for this particular camera body, aside from the fact that Canon made the 5D series as long lasting bodies, chances also are it's been used by one previous owner only, and in a very conservative manner too! say, it's always been kept on a tripod and the shutter was fired at certain speeds (possibly even 'no speeds', such as using it on the B mode for example) and that's why it's still working so fine after so many years and shutter clicks ... in fact, if this was used by a sports photographer for example, and it's still in such a good working status, then i suggest you let Canon company itself know about it and they might buy it from you at a much higher price, because this is such a great advertisement for them ... (also i heard of a some Benz car and saw a documentary on TH-cam abuot a Volvo with more than 1M miles on them ... the latter, the Volvo's owner, has received special badges by the company every 100`000 miles, which are on display on the car's rear trunk door ... the catch though, is that its owner has stopped driving it on a daily basis say when it reached its factory guaranteed mark of whatever it was back in the 1980s when he bought it ... probably 100`000 miles or something? ... he just drives it for several miles a week only to put its mileage endurance to test ... you ought to be able to find its video on TH-cam via a quick search i think ...)
This is like my camera although I'm only in like 600,000 range but I have a collection of cameras which I use I haven't dealt with any shutters falling apart yet
it's like with a car, if you use it often the mileage can skyrocket, if it stays in the garage only to be used say once in a month then it'll have some problems. I have 5Ds with 500K, 1D4 with 600K and two 1Ds3, one have around 150K, second is more like 800K.
Haha I’ve seen some 1D series cameras with well over 4 million. You can look up “camera shutter database” and click the link from Oleg and find a crowdsourced shutter expectancy! It’s fun seeing what to expect compared to what the manufacturer claimed. As others have said, it was probably used in a remote tether, timelapse, or burst shooting enclosure settings. Those regular breakdown of photos really is a normal amount for a wedding pro, I can easily clear 13k photos across a wedding weekend haha! My favorite photographer Sam Hurd doesn’t even review cameras/gear until he usually has over 100k images on it
FYI when a shutter mechanism is replaced the shutter count on the camera is reset to zero so it is no doubt still operating with its original shutter mechanism - awesome eh?
As a photojournalist. My Nikon F3 had probably a million shots. The only time I would ever get a number in shutter count was when I sent it to NPS. Not hard ti believe.
There is a German Pgotographer on YT using a Canon 6D Mark II that has over 1 million count, he has other Canon models with similar count, all original shutters.
the shutter rating is how many actuations the shutter is guaranteed to take problem free...the maximum amount it can take is much higher than that...the camera tech is usually outdated long before the shutter fails. I took well over 600K shots on my Old Nikon D40 back in the day and it had a shutter count rating of 55k and as far as i know it;s still going strong.
I bought an EOS 40D a few months ago with a shutter count of 32,000. On a 15 year old camera. My EOS 2000D which I've had for 21 months has done 130,291. Both shutters sound completely different. The 40D is quiet, the 2000D is loud as hell. Even with those wacky shutter counts both bodies look basically brand new. And yes, it is entirely possible to blow through 2,000 shots in the space of six hours during a trip to the zoo; I've done it three times this year.
Could have been used for sports, wildlife or timelapses... At the time, these were impressive; nowadays, you need to press the shutter of an r3 or r7 for less than 15 second to get these 482 shots a day. I personally take about 100-300 pictures per action shooting session (at 10fps)...
I own this same camera, Bought it December 2019 used in pristine condition and it's STILL a beast. If you were to turn that Mark II into a cinematic story-telling beast. What attachments would you add besides that 50mm I.8? Just curious, love your videos, fellow videography as well.
I knew by the title this would be a Canon. Since 1977 I've used Canon and only had one problem with one of my a1 bodies. And even today that old film camera still works today. Although the led lights in the viewfinder doesn't display. Exposures are still correct in auto modes or when hand held meter is used in manual mode. So the meter works its just the display in viewfinder has quit working.
I reckon either timelapse or some kind of super commercial application like drivers license/school photos or a photobooth/ walk around photographer at a theme park or club.
Wow 2 million 😯 ! Amazing. Maybe it was used for timelapses or for industry usage I have a Nikon D800 that is rated for 200.000 (actually I have 62.000) and I'm worried lol. Same thing with my D5300 rated for 150.000 (actually 51.000). It seems like those things last forever and we have to not worry about shutter. Buy the way,I love so much the music you use in your video. I rewatch sometimes your videos just for the music. If only I could get the names of those music, it would be great
Absolutely incredible....never have I know such a high actuation frame count. I normally stay clear of DSLR that have done more than 60,000. A. Amazing, blows my mine thats for sure.
I worked for a wedding photographer as a second shooter for almost a decade. She had a 5D mkII with over a million accuations. It never broke, but the shutter was replaced a few times and the mirror box also. She would send it in yearly to Canon for cleaning and inspections. Repairs were done when reccomended. At the time, I shot with a 6D. I did almost 300,000 accuations over the 4 years I owned it. One mirror box replacement at 225,000 per Canon recomendations. Long story short, take care of the camera and it should last.
I have log thought that the shutter lifespan is irrelevant to professional photographers, especially those on a pro plan, with regular servicing and (presumably) loaners, or a spare.
To those who say that this is probably because the camera have been at high speed shuter burts over time.Then you don't know how a shutter works! As long as you are counting shutters...the shutter has to move across the censor. If it is one frame an hour on ten times a secound...it physicialy moves across the censor. If yoy have 1000 000 shutter counts, that is how many times the shutter has passed the sensor. 1000 000 times. The speed or the frequency doesn't matter. Let me give you a practicle example....take a none HSS flash...set your camera manually to....1/500 of a secound....about half of your photo will be black. That because most cameras can keep up with 1/200-1/250/s because the flash is faster than the physicale speed of the courtains of the shutter passing the censor. One picture...one movement of the courtians of the shutter.To those who say that this is probably because the camera have been at high speed shuter burts over time.Then you don't know how a shutter works! As long as you are counting shutters...the shutter has to move across the censor. If it is one frame an hour on ten times a secound...it physicialy moves across the censor. If yoy have 1000 000 shutter counts, that is how many times the shutter has passed the sensor. 1000 000 times. The speed or the frequency doesn't matter. Let me give you a practicle example....take a none HSS flash...set your camera manually to....1/1000 of a secound....about half of your photo will be black. That because most cameras can't keep up with 1/200-1/250/s because the flash is faster than the physicale speed of the courtains of the shutter passing the censor. One picture...one movement of the courtians of the shutter.
I've seen a camera box in a nightclub before, all controlled just by pressing a touschreen (camera in glass box) Maybe a use case like this is what it's been in. Where there's little to no user interaction but it gets repeatedly used
There are so many uses this camera could have had to rack up the high shutter count but I’d bet it wasn’t in the hands of an operator / photographer and it certainly wasn’t a pool camera as some are suggesting, pool cameras get the crap beat out of them! I think I’ve seen retinal exam machines with 5DIIs on them, this sort of installation has the camera mounted to the machine and fired remotely and probably doesn’t even use a CF card, sending the pictures straight to the computer.
Real Estate photographers easily take between 400 - 800 photos per day, and many of them work weekends. Some small companies employ additional shooters and may supply the gear to them as well. If this camera was a 14 year workhorse, the math would check out...that being said, it's still unbelievable! No matter where this was used, that shutter count is bananas. Most of the folks I know have shutter issues around the 400k-600k mark on the far end. Oh, and when Canon replaces a worn shutter mechanism, they generally reset the shutter count, so unless the repair was performed by a different shop or an individual, it's possibly the original shutter box.
I’m not saying reaching that milestone is not possible but there’s softwares online that can modify the actuations/clicks on the camera to whatever you want. Maybe someone did that to impress or as a joke before trading it in? Who knows 🤷🏻♂️ Still very impressive and great a video 🤙
that many shutter accusations would be possible in a non automated sense if the person was a full time studio photographer. I say this from speaking from experience, in one year I managed to rack up 100k shutters only shooting 3/4 times a month (once a week, 10 hours at a time) and Ive only owned that D800 for one year so by that same time frame just using my camera one day a week over the span for 10+ years you'd get that kind of shutter count with minimal wear. BUT judging by the numbers and the lack of wear with no dinks or heavy wear that camera most likely could have been used for E-Commerce and product photography
It was probably used in an industrial process taking high-speed burst pictures. That would explains the general lack of wear
Or some kind of intervelometer time lapse of season change maybe?!
totally agree, looks very clean for a 2 million shutter actuations 🧐
high-speed bursts with a 5DmkII :D best joke!
The owner tried photography by statistics. I am sure he or she produced great art.
That, or some active sports photographer with the mentality of "If I keep the shutter pressed for long enough with burst mode on, one of the images' gotta be good eventually".
The 5D mark II is a tank in photography services especially in Vietnam, where lots of people still buy and sell it regularly and use it for multiple low-cost studio services. I've seen lots of 5D mark II that have shutter counts over 1 mil, but never over 2 mil like this one!
true that
Would be cool if the original owner found this vid and dropped the camera's life story. Neat stuff!
That would be awesome!
I wonder if you contact Canon if the original owner had registered it with them. I'm sure Canon would love to know. The 5DmkII is an absolute tank and a solid workhorse. I picked one up a couple of years ago and have had amazing photos from it. I also have the R5, but I often go back to the 5DmkII. What a find you had.
@@davidcoleman2868 sending to canon is a bad idea.
- Time lapses
- Industrial usage
- Airport, school, institutional usage
- Photo studio usage
I saw a 1DX with 1.4 million shutter counts today. It's just amazing that these cameras are going way beyond their shutter lives!!
My 1DX has ~860,000 actuations and still works fine.
@@practicalphotography1235 wow. That's extraordinary!
My 5D II's were still going strong when I retired them at 261,000 and 282,000. The only camera that I shot the shutter out of was a Nikon F with motor drive that I used to shoot sports back in ancient times. The shutter just came apart at 74,000 plus frames. Cameras are amazingly durable these days.
Facts. I’ve been with a studio and they blew out 3 d3 s lol
Probably used for shooting timelapses (would still add up to roughly 24h of timelapse footage)
That’s a good thought
yup, or stopmotion. I'm currently using my 40D for LEGO stopmotion (because I don't have to take it off the tripod to change batteries. Powergrips ftw!).
@@BlokeOnAMotorbike Why not just use one of those adapters where you can plug it into the wall?
@@Toastmaster_5000 because of the two canon cameras I own (a 40d and a 2000d) neither of them can run on external power
@@BlokeOnAMotorbike Yes they can - there are kits for them. It'll be awkward if you need a tripod but it is possible.
Don’t let Canon see this video. They might get some cost saving ideas 😂
Lol for real though!! They keep their hammer game STRONG
IKR?!
They already did. The r5 has a 500k rated life of the mechanical shutter. And electronic shutter basically uses none. I can easily shoot 1k shots a day only spending around 5 shutter actuations
The shutter life is more or less just an estimate as to how long a camera's shutter will last on average. That doesn't mean it will stop working when it reaches the advertised count, and some people will get more or less than what the advertised life is. That being said, it is possible if you're lucky to get 2M+ photos on a camera, if you don't mind paying to have the shutter replaced a few times (assuming you can get 200-300k shots per replacement). On some of the more expensive models, this might be worth it as a shutter replacement can cost about $300 each time, and if you do it 5 times for a camera that costs $3000+ it might make sense versus buying another camera. On consumer grade ($500-$1000 cameras) it generally doesn't make sense to replace the shutter more than once. I wouldn't do it on a camera that was less than bout $600-700 though as being a break-even point because you'll have spent about half the value of the camera on a new shutter. But I have heard of some people also going well over 500k shots on their pro bodies before needing replacement. How you treat the camera will also impact how long the shutter lasts.
As mentioned I've seen some million plus 5D's that have sat for months doing time lapses on big building projects.
Interesting
Damn, 2 milion photos, what a monster
My 5D MK 2 has survived since 2011 when I bought it, it traveled the world with me, currently now its shutter count is 321191. I am still using it as my backup camera :-) it is an amazing machine.
I paid 200 for my 60D with 250k on the shutter. 200 for a 5D miii is fantastic even just for a video rig.
Nice. Is the 5D still holding up? What is the shutter count now?
Shutter probably replaced a few times and if used for Timelapse’s then you put a lot of milage on the count fast. The 5D2 was a notorious time lapse machine. I had one with about 1,5 mill with 2 replaced shutters👍🏼 so it’s not a unicorn 😊
Yeah was wondering if the shutter was replaced. Since if you replace the shutter, the shutter count does not reset.
I had my shutter replaced, and it was reset to zero.
@@faramineuzefotos2975 That's because you had it done by an official or at least officially licensed repair center. I could replace it for you, but without resetting the counter.
Probably a time lapse camera!
I didn’t think of that! Very possible
And Astrofotografy
Probably used in some photo studio for passport and school photos
As a photojournalist, I've heared about several Nikon D700 that had their shutters replaced only after 1 million shots and the same about the Nikon D5. D700's expected shutter life time is 150k actuations, D5's-400k. By the way: My Nikon D610 with 170+k shutter actuations looks not as good as this 5D Mari II, so this 5D is in the great shape
I love how you censored the logo in the thumbnail when every photographer in the world instantly recognizes the body of a canon 5D 😅
haha and he didnt blur out the 5D and Mark II
Just recently bought 5d mark 2 with 71,000 shutter count for £169 here in UK from a local camera shop with a six month warranty. Really love the handling and quality of video straight out of camera. Hope i can get it up to 2 milion shutter count 🙏 which will take me many years🙂
And to think that I have a Canon 5DmkII somewhere in a camerabag gathering dust.
Thanks to you I now know that I own a hidden gem.
Literally.
Crazy, I have a Nex-3 that has 97k Shutter actuation's hopefully it lasts another 97k (i dont use it much anymore tho lol)
Test it to the limit! Suggestion: Make a timelapse photo/movie of your life/interior untill the camera DIES.
Jot down that number, make us bet: A)2.5M+ B) 3.0M+ C) 3.5M+ D)5.0M+ and choose a winner who received this unique camera with a cool story. Then upload the video of the interior/life in high speed X100 as a tribute.
hope my 6D that has 250k shutter actuations would also last that long. awesome video as always!
same my canon 6d i bought at a 135,934k shutters so i have ran it up to about 200,000 im hoping mine lasts for a long time there is a wedding photographer here on youtube who has a 6d that he bought brand new and it is at 860K+ shutters and still going
I got a 6d2 thats got 450k+... still works fine
probably used for a ton of timelapses. Hence the excellent condition and the crazy shutter count.
Just bought a 5D MkII that has less than 2000 shutter actuations! It’s absolutely like new!
Looks like it’ll last me then 🤣👍
Looking forward to seeing what you have planned with this camera. I started following your channel as a NEX-5R user and you having the best vids on that cam. I picked up a 5D Mkii a few months back and am loving it so far. Can't wait to see your take on it.
It's crazy how high that shutter count is per year. I had my nikon camera for nearly 4 years and it's only got a shutter count of 28605.
I don't know what tech they are using, but something I could think of where such high shutter counts would occur would be roller-coaster pictures, or other fun-fair style uses, where many people get their picture automatically taken in a quick succession.
Definitely fits the non-existent outer-wear, too, since you'd probably install it in an enclosure, to be remotely triggered, and never touch it until you decommission it.
Maybe it'd even fit the insanely high shutter count, too, if the pictures would just be live-view pictures, without any shutter actuations whatsoever.
I don't know though, if
1) the 5DM2 has truly electronic shutter only,
2) if it counts for the shutter actuations, and
3) if it's actually practical in such an usecase (especially the roller-coaster pictures), since rolling shutter would probably be somewhat bad.
No electronic shutter, live view still used the shutter blades.
i think the 5d mk2 must have an electronic ("rolling") shutter since it is capable of shooting video.
as i understand it, rolling shutter actuations would not be included in the official (mechanical) count since such actuations amount only to electrical activity.
@@daktarioskarvannederhosen2568
Yes the 5DII can do video, but for live view shots it first closes the shutter and then makes a normal exposure and then re-opens for live view again.
I just put it up on reddit, hopefully we can find some answers!
Wow thank you!! Which subreddit?
3000 photos a month 🤔. Sounds like maybe it lived it’s life with a wedding photographer or videographer. And they were booked every weekend 😅
or it was used for timelapses.
Probably was used in some automatic product photography device and was shooting 360 shots. It is not worn as it has been sitting for a few years on the device.
The shutter has probably been replaced several times by non-Canon official service centers. Only they have the tools to reset the shutter actuation counter when replacing the mechanism. A unnoficial repair center would replace the shutter and it would continue to count the old actuations.
Exactly what my first thought was. Also, this is probably the least interesting, dragged on to sheer boredom video I've seen in a long time.
Bought an used Nikon D750 3 years ago with ~171k in the shutter count. It just surpassed one million a week ago. :) I shot timelapse videos, an average day to night or night to day session is about 3-4000 photo on the sd card. As far as I know, still working with the original shutter.
3300 per week is like what I usually do as event photographer, some weddings happens 3000 in one day but the lol part is that I shoot everything electronic with my XH2s so I'm not touching the shutter
I unloaded 7,500 from my OM-D E-M1 Mark II recently. I was shooting focus brackets of 15 shots.
The previous owner must be a master of photography. I'd love to see their work. The progression must be crazy. That might make an interesting video.
I have the complete opposite story. My 9 years old daughter got interested in photography and I bought a used olympus epl6 that was advertised as "like new"... well, indeed! It had only 1336 shots on it, which equals to only 3.21 shots per week in the course of 8 years. What a lack of interest in photography from that owner! lol. I can say my little girl took in a week more pictures than that camera had taken in 8 years.
I have the Mark II! It’s a pretty awesome camera. For anyone looking to buy it, definitely do. It’s worth it
Here in Brazil it is very common to find 5D's with a huge shutter count. I've seen some like these.
The lack of wear indicated just how much it was used. Parts have been replaced over and over again.
I suppose the software use to check the count only indicates the overall count rather than the count since the last reset.
Around the 150~200k mark youd expect the dail to start skipping and generally errors to start popping up. around 200k mark the grip is gonna start peeling. And then theres a 5D2 issue with loose screws that can short the boards.
Fascinating to thing about how it mightve been used though.
I'm seriously thinking about picking up a 5D mk2 just for some fun as a second camera. I currently use a Sony mirrorless but some of my lenses are adapted EF sigma art lenses so getting an older canon wouldn't be a huge investment. I love the look of those older chunky bodies
The canon cameras are so much better with ergonomics. They're really nice to use. Just wish they had kept pace with the competition.
MAYBE IT WAS USED AT SOME POINT FOR BURSTING PHOTOS
I ran my D3100 almost exclusively for timelapse. Not even a professional camera but has hit 400,000. Shutter still works fine but the mirror sometimes locks.
My main camera body is a Canon 5D Mark III and it's got a shutter count of 791,751 right now, which puts it at 528% its expected lifetime according to the shuttercount app. Canon makes pretty good shutters.
Matthew Vanderputte used one for timelapes. He passed 800,000 on the original shutter. He has a channel.
i love your original vid ideas man!! From fixing an arri camera to this ,very entertaining keep it up!!
Having owned the 5D Mk 1 to 4 models I am amazed but considering canon quality I am not totally surprised
I could also imagine a use in stop motion filming
100%
Crazy! I can, however, top it. My 5D MK II has 3,904,064 clicks.
I bought from a friend a 6D with 892k before the shutter was gone. I had to change the mirror box because it wouldn't focus right.
change the shutter but the count remains..same goes to nikon.. had my D700 shutter replaced but the count remains :)
it probably belonged to an event photographer. On corporate events, such as seminars or launching events, I used to take more than thousands of photos each day. Yet, 2.2 million is just out of this world!!! Kudos to canon for making a real life Tank 🤣🤣
I saw a nikon d3 with 3 million clicks on it on ebay. According to the seller, it had the shutter replaced once, out of maintenance, not because it broke.
Even if it died on its next shot, that's an average of 1.5 million per shutter
I've heard stories of pro bodies from this era going way past the shutter rating, but I haven't seen much proof myself. My D700 right now has about 155,000 and runs like a top.
My 40D is at 130k and runs fine, it's rated for ~100k and knock on wood... It's going to hit 150k at least.
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My 40D failed with a few hundred shots on the second day of a holiday in Phoenix (from UK) fortunately I had rearranged my bag 3 times before leaving and on the 3rd time I managed to fit my 300D in, thank goodness for previous cameras!
Canon fitted a new shutter box and I now use the 40D for timelapse, I do like my 40D, no idea what the shutter count is now! 🤷♂️
I have a 5DII as well, purchased from MPB UK and it only had 7000 shots, it is like new. I use that on a set of Canon FD bellows for digitising my dads slide collection.
@@grahamstretch6863 Apparently shutters on 40D had some issues, they would sometimes die early but that wasn't because they wore out, so you probably got unlucky and got that one.
40D is a nice camera, even today it takes good photos.
I love your videos man. This was so interesting! Keep it up.
PS - love the music you always use. Some great relaxing lofi 😊
Thank you!
Exactly. I love so much the music he uses. I watch sometimes his videos just for the music 😃
I have a Nikon D800 that has like almost a million, but I noticed that the counter goes up by 2 when shooting RAW+JPEG so I don't think it counts as shutter actuations.
my 5d Mark iii has more than million, but still functioning well
Usually canon is the most used brand by for an example german weather surveillance. Most cameras are being used stationary and never removed during their whole life cycle and take pictures every 5 to 10 minutes.
It's a canon!!! Obviously the best brand on the market ever. This isn't weird.
read somewhere about a Nikon F2 film camera with more than 1M shutter actuation ...
i remember once i saw a Hasselblad ad boasting about how durable its (in-body) shutter is ... that, roughly quoting the ad's text: "If you think you buy a new Hasselblad when you pay for it in a camera store or directly from the company, then rest assured that its shutter mechanism has been fired 130`000 times before leaving the company!" ... (or something like that ...) ;-)
as for this particular camera body, aside from the fact that Canon made the 5D series as long lasting bodies, chances also are it's been used by one previous owner only, and in a very conservative manner too! say, it's always been kept on a tripod and the shutter was fired at certain speeds (possibly even 'no speeds', such as using it on the B mode for example) and that's why it's still working so fine after so many years and shutter clicks ... in fact, if this was used by a sports photographer for example, and it's still in such a good working status, then i suggest you let Canon company itself know about it and they might buy it from you at a much higher price, because this is such a great advertisement for them ...
(also i heard of a some Benz car and saw a documentary on TH-cam abuot a Volvo with more than 1M miles on them ... the latter, the Volvo's owner, has received special badges by the company every 100`000 miles, which are on display on the car's rear trunk door ... the catch though, is that its owner has stopped driving it on a daily basis say when it reached its factory guaranteed mark of whatever it was back in the 1980s when he bought it ... probably 100`000 miles or something? ... he just drives it for several miles a week only to put its mileage endurance to test ... you ought to be able to find its video on TH-cam via a quick search i think ...)
This is like my camera although I'm only in like 600,000 range but I have a collection of cameras which I use I haven't dealt with any shutters falling apart yet
I still use my 5D II. Works great.
it's like with a car, if you use it often the mileage can skyrocket, if it stays in the garage only to be used say once in a month then it'll have some problems. I have 5Ds with 500K, 1D4 with 600K and two 1Ds3, one have around 150K, second is more like 800K.
Haha I’ve seen some 1D series cameras with well over 4 million. You can look up “camera shutter database” and click the link from Oleg and find a crowdsourced shutter expectancy! It’s fun seeing what to expect compared to what the manufacturer claimed. As others have said, it was probably used in a remote tether, timelapse, or burst shooting enclosure settings.
Those regular breakdown of photos really is a normal amount for a wedding pro, I can easily clear 13k photos across a wedding weekend haha! My favorite photographer Sam Hurd doesn’t even review cameras/gear until he usually has over 100k images on it
When your shutter count becomes serial number
Could this be from like a multi year time lapse project?
It definitely could be!
FYI when a shutter mechanism is replaced the shutter count on the camera is reset to zero so it is no doubt still operating with its original shutter mechanism - awesome eh?
As a photojournalist. My Nikon F3 had probably a million shots. The only time I would ever get a number in shutter count was when I sent it to NPS. Not hard ti believe.
There is a German Pgotographer on YT using a Canon 6D Mark II that has over 1 million count, he has other Canon models with similar count, all original shutters.
the shutter rating is how many actuations the shutter is guaranteed to take problem free...the maximum amount it can take is much higher than that...the camera tech is usually outdated long before the shutter fails. I took well over 600K shots on my Old Nikon D40 back in the day and it had a shutter count rating of 55k and as far as i know it;s still going strong.
The rating is not “how many actuations the shutter is guaranteed to take” it is a mean time between failures and possibly an estimated number at that!
Unfortunately , here in Brazil they tax us with 80-100% of taxes... for us is very hard to buy tech equipment. Even used :(
I bought an EOS 40D a few months ago with a shutter count of 32,000. On a 15 year old camera. My EOS 2000D which I've had for 21 months has done 130,291. Both shutters sound completely different. The 40D is quiet, the 2000D is loud as hell. Even with those wacky shutter counts both bodies look basically brand new. And yes, it is entirely possible to blow through 2,000 shots in the space of six hours during a trip to the zoo; I've done it three times this year.
Could have been used for sports, wildlife or timelapses... At the time, these were impressive; nowadays, you need to press the shutter of an r3 or r7 for less than 15 second to get these 482 shots a day. I personally take about 100-300 pictures per action shooting session (at 10fps)...
The company I work for use 5d 2s for our virtual tours. One house is about 2500 photos x that by the 5 houses we do a day.
It may have been used for a photobooth- that could also explain why the body appears to be in excellent condition
I own this same camera, Bought it December 2019 used in pristine condition and it's STILL a beast. If you were to turn that Mark II into a cinematic story-telling beast. What attachments would you add besides that 50mm I.8? Just curious, love your videos, fellow videography as well.
Any EF lens. Most likely, anything for the 5D III, 5Ds{,R} and 5D IV. Except the GP-E2
I knew by the title this would be a Canon. Since 1977 I've used Canon and only had one problem with one of my a1 bodies. And even today that old film camera still works today. Although the led lights in the viewfinder doesn't display. Exposures are still correct in auto modes or when hand held meter is used in manual mode.
So the meter works its just the display in viewfinder has quit working.
too curious to find out mine now, what was the app used ?
I reckon either timelapse or some kind of super commercial application like drivers license/school photos or a photobooth/ walk around photographer at a theme park or club.
I had a 5D Mark III that had a lil over a million, was still going strong when i sold it, no problems!
Wow 2 million 😯 ! Amazing. Maybe it was used for timelapses or for industry usage
I have a Nikon D800 that is rated for 200.000 (actually I have 62.000) and I'm worried lol.
Same thing with my D5300 rated for 150.000 (actually 51.000).
It seems like those things last forever and we have to not worry about shutter.
Buy the way,I love so much the music you use in your video. I rewatch sometimes your videos just for the music. If only I could get the names of those music, it would be great
Absolutely incredible....never have I know such a high actuation frame count. I normally stay clear of DSLR that have done more than 60,000. A. Amazing, blows my mine thats for sure.
I have a Canon 1D MKIII with just shy of 2,700,000 clicks on it. Original shutter. Still works fine.
When you put stuff to the test, I always wonder what the manufacturer really knows that they're not telling you.
the 5dii is a tank! I would never give her away! actually bought mine with a 250k shutter count, but she still works fineyfine!
I worked for a wedding photographer as a second shooter for almost a decade. She had a 5D mkII with over a million accuations. It never broke, but the shutter was replaced a few times and the mirror box also. She would send it in yearly to Canon for cleaning and inspections. Repairs were done when reccomended. At the time, I shot with a 6D. I did almost 300,000 accuations over the 4 years I owned it. One mirror box replacement at 225,000 per Canon recomendations.
Long story short, take care of the camera and it should last.
I have log thought that the shutter lifespan is irrelevant to professional photographers, especially those on a pro plan, with regular servicing and (presumably) loaners, or a spare.
Just got a nikon d3 from mpb and it was never listed the shutter count. And it was over 560k
Using 5d mark iv , please let me know if there is any way to find shutter counts
Back in July I paid 300USD for a 12k shutter count 5Dm2
To those who say that this is probably because the camera have been at high speed shuter burts over time.Then you don't know how a shutter works! As long as you are counting shutters...the shutter has to move across the censor. If it is one frame an hour on ten times a secound...it physicialy moves across the censor. If yoy have 1000 000 shutter counts, that is how many times the shutter has passed the sensor. 1000 000 times. The speed or the frequency doesn't matter.
Let me give you a practicle example....take a none HSS flash...set your camera manually to....1/500 of a secound....about half of your photo will be black. That because most cameras can keep up with 1/200-1/250/s because the flash is faster than the physicale speed of the courtains of the shutter passing the censor. One picture...one movement of the courtians of the shutter.To those who say that this is probably because the camera have been at high speed shuter burts over time.Then you don't know how a shutter works! As long as you are counting shutters...the shutter has to move across the censor. If it is one frame an hour on ten times a secound...it physicialy moves across the censor. If yoy have 1000 000 shutter counts, that is how many times the shutter has passed the sensor. 1000 000 times. The speed or the frequency doesn't matter.
Let me give you a practicle example....take a none HSS flash...set your camera manually to....1/1000 of a secound....about half of your photo will be black. That because most cameras can't keep up with 1/200-1/250/s because the flash is faster than the physicale speed of the courtains of the shutter passing the censor. One picture...one movement of the courtians of the shutter.
I've seen a camera box in a nightclub before, all controlled just by pressing a touschreen (camera in glass box)
Maybe a use case like this is what it's been in. Where there's little to no user interaction but it gets repeatedly used
A colegue of mine had a Nikon z6 with 2.900.000 and shutter broken at that shutter count
I have a 7d mark II that I bought from them. Over a million. Still works perfectly
got mine for 300 cad and came with nifty fifty, a battery and a battery grip
There are so many uses this camera could have had to rack up the high shutter count but I’d bet it wasn’t in the hands of an operator / photographer and it certainly wasn’t a pool camera as some are suggesting, pool cameras get the crap beat out of them!
I think I’ve seen retinal exam machines with 5DIIs on them, this sort of installation has the camera mounted to the machine and fired remotely and probably doesn’t even use a CF card, sending the pictures straight to the computer.
If it was used for a single time-lapse video I'd love to see it
I loved using the 5D Mark 2. Great Image with character. I liked using the 5D 3 but felt some of the character was lost.
I had a 2 then a 3. The autofocus was much better on the 3.
Wait until you get hold of a 5D Classic.
Real Estate photographers easily take between 400 - 800 photos per day, and many of them work weekends. Some small companies employ additional shooters and may supply the gear to them as well. If this camera was a 14 year workhorse, the math would check out...that being said, it's still unbelievable! No matter where this was used, that shutter count is bananas. Most of the folks I know have shutter issues around the 400k-600k mark on the far end. Oh, and when Canon replaces a worn shutter mechanism, they generally reset the shutter count, so unless the repair was performed by a different shop or an individual, it's possibly the original shutter box.
I’m not saying reaching that milestone is not possible but there’s softwares online that can modify the actuations/clicks on the camera to whatever you want. Maybe someone did that to impress or as a joke before trading it in? Who knows 🤷🏻♂️
Still very impressive and great a video 🤙
my old 5d2 now near 400k shutter btw, no problem so far.
I'm a motorsports photographer. I take at least 4 thousand photos a week, some weeks I can take up to 10 000+ I use a 5d mark 3.
that many shutter accusations would be possible in a non automated sense if the person was a full time studio photographer. I say this from speaking from experience, in one year I managed to rack up 100k shutters only shooting 3/4 times a month (once a week, 10 hours at a time) and Ive only owned that D800 for one year so by that same time frame just using my camera one day a week over the span for 10+ years you'd get that kind of shutter count with minimal wear. BUT judging by the numbers and the lack of wear with no dinks or heavy wear that camera most likely could have been used for E-Commerce and product photography