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Noticed I hit 500 shutter repairs this morning
Was going through my logbook from the last 3 years and counted 503 shutter replacements. Never thought I'd see that many. Anyone else keep track of their numbers like this?
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parkerbrown19d ago
Margaret, are you saying he missed one, or are you actually tracking his numbers too?
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torres.thea19d ago
Read a repair blog that said most people quit counting after 100. 500 is a solid milestone though, especially if most are the same camera brand. That's a ton of tiny screws and ribbon cables.
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luna_wright19d ago
Saw a repair shop owner say once that once you pass 200, the numbers start to blur together because you've seen every possible failure mode by then. 500 is a lot of tiny springs and precise alignment checks though. Margaret might be right about the miscount, but sometimes you get a day where a camera comes back for the same issue a second time and it's hard to tell if that counts as a new repair or a redo. Either way, logbooks are a weird kind of therapy for this work. Keeps you honest about which models actually stay fixed and which ones just keep coming back.
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