In addition to shutter count and image sensor hours i would be interested in mirror activations and its total usage time.
Canon 5d mark iii shutter count life.
How ever it is not known when your shutter will fail you.
Canon eos 1d x 400 000 uses a carbon fiber shutter mechanism.
Ask for a shutter count when you send the camera to canon for a cleaning and check out.
Beyond that most professional level cameras like the canon 5d mark are rated for 100 000 or more shutter cycles.
Canon eos 5d 100 000.
For example eos 300d is expected to fail at 40 000 counts but there will be some surpass the lifetime expectancy like my friend has goes beyond 43 000 counts and the camera still works.
If a shutter decides to fail it will fail whenever it gets good and ready.
There have been 1d cameras designated as mark iii too.
As soon as you switch your camera on the app will display information about your camera and shutter count in a simple tabbed display.
What is the maximum shutter count rating for my camera.
Is that a 5d series camera.
It vary widely by model.
Please note that this shutter lifetime value is tested and expected from the canon.
Whilst the screenshots in this review show results from my canon 5d mark iv i also tested a 7d mark ii which worked in exactly the same way.
Canon eos 5d mark ii 150 000.
Wikipedia canon eos 5d mark iii shutter rated lifespan is 150000 actuations.
What exactly is a mark iii.
That said many cameras well outlive their rated shutter life by tens if not hundreds of thousands of cycles.
On 25 august 2016 canon announced the camera s successor the canon eos 5d mark iv.
Canon 450d canon eos rebel xsi s shutter life is about 50 000 actuations.
5d mark ii s shutter assures trouble free operation over its 150 000 cycle.
Obviously canon s professional models last much longer than entry level model.
Depending upon your intended use i would be less concerned about the shutter count than the overall health of the camera body itself.
The eos 5d mark iii combines fast 8 channel data readout from its 22 3 megapixel cmos sensor and the supercharged processing capabilities of its digic 5 image processor with a speedier shutter and mirror system to raise the performance bar for all digital cameras capturing full frame images and recording them fast to udma or sd cards stored.