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Shutter wear and tear during movie taking

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Georg1968
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Shutter wear and tear during movie taking

I'm a first time user of a DSLR/DSLT camera.

I want to take sports action photography (of my sons).

So bought a SONY A57, that will let me take amazing 12 shots per second.

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But just found out that the shutter will be worn down on those DSLx cameras.

Might be a high number, but I will properly not do 1000 shots per event any more 😉

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Q1) But will this shutter wear and tear also take place when I take movies?

Is the camera shutter doing any actuations during movie making/taking


Georg


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cmosse
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The shutter lifetime of SLT-A57 is not officially rated by Sony (e.g..for A99 they say about 200.000 cycles lifetime).

For amatuer models I would assume 80.-100. thousand expeced shutter actuations.


In movie mode the focal plane shutter is not used.

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cmosse
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The shutter lifetime of SLT-A57 is not officially rated by Sony (e.g..for A99 they say about 200.000 cycles lifetime).

For amatuer models I would assume 80.-100. thousand expeced shutter actuations.


In movie mode the focal plane shutter is not used.

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Georg1968
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Thanks.

Just what I want to know so I could use the A57 in a way that will give me many years of fun.

Have you any good link where this is discussed in deep and properly.

And not the flame about the numbers of actuations it can last.

Google search give so many hits.


/G