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how many shots can a M8 shutter withstand before service?


maddav

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I guess 2000 shutter releases is really not much for this camera?

 

Actually, I've not seen Leica publish an expected life-cycle figure for the M8's shutter. My Canon 1 bodies are in the neighborhood of 200,000 clicks, I think my 5D is around 150,000. But these are not necessarily reliable standards since Canon's shutter technology is much more mature on these cameras than Leica's M8 shutter, which is the first of its kind.

 

So at this time I think the only reliable answer is: it will work until it doesn't.

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Hopefully, Copal's experience in shutters will help, but from the Copal web-site, it does look like they produce a custom design for each application. I'm quite sure that Leica have done automated endurance testing to see what pops. Once a second, 86400 times a day...

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