[Polandspring88]

So recently the shutter on my D50 has been "sticking". It is approximately 5 years old and has probably 15K shots through it. Issue doesn't occur on all shots, or even consecutive shots, it crops up randomly everytime I take more than a couple of pictures. What will happen is after I depress the shutter release it will open, but not close until I depress the shutter release again. Does that sound like a failing shutter? Or just a grimy camera that needs to be cleaned? At this point its probably not cost effective to dump more than a few bucks into that camera since I'm looking to upgrade before the end of the year, but hoping to make it last until then.

 

[narlus]

15K sounds very premature for a shutter to fail. i've never had one, and have used 3 cameras that have each had at least 100K actuations on them.

can you put it in bulb mode and test the shutter opening and closing that way?

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

Quit fapping into the camera body.

 

[eaterofdog]

Camera mechanisms are supposed to be cleaned on an annual basis.

 

[dante]

Is it really your shutter sticking open (ie, blown out, completely white pictures)? It almost sounds like a Mirror Lock Up going on, since it's one click to lock the mirror in place, and then another to actually release the shutter.

Just a thought...

 

[Polandspring88]

Interesting thought, I'll have to see if I can duplicate the issue tonight when I get home. I know I don't have the mirror lock-up function on, so I'd be curious to know what would be causing that if that was the case...

 

[dante]

Well, your camera doesn't have MLU for taking pictures, but does have something similar for cleaning the sensor. Just double-check the pictures, as if it's just the mirror staying up your picture will turn out fine (your shutter will still only be open for a short period of time), but if the pictures are over-exposed then it will be that your shutter was open the whole time as well...

 

[bean]

D50 shutter life is 50k. You're certainly low for it to be failing, but failure at low numbers has happened before.