Showerthought: I just read that a 1970s Nikon F2 shutter is rated for 150,000 cycles

Found it in an old service manual PDF from a repair shop in Chicago. That's a lot of clicks for a mechanical part. Has anyone actually seen one fail right at that number, or do they usually go longer?

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the_mary12d agoTop Commenter

That "50 year old rating" point is spot on. I've got an old Pentax K1000 that's way past its official shutter rating (I'm the third owner, so who even knows the real count). The thing just keeps working, but the light seals turned to goo and the mirror foam is dust. The mechanical bits outlast the cheap stuff around them.

mitchell.lee19d ago

Check the date on that manual. That's a 50 YEAR OLD rating.

grantp2819d ago

Honestly, that "50 year old rating" thing got me thinking. My dad's old lawnmower had a lifetime warranty from 1983, and they actually honored it last year when the wheel fell off.