Kodak won’t have anything to do with this. The " warranty" is all figured in the price and Walmart just throws them away. They buy the seconds from the factory to use just for this purpose. The cost of these things does not allow for anyone to take them apart to fool with them. Say is true of all budget electronics - VCRs, cameras, microwaves etc.
This topic raises a question in my mind. If I bought a $100 pentax K1000 0r Minolta SRT I could expect many years of faithful service. Just what is the life expectancy of these newer digitals ? How about their repair records ? Their resale or trade in value ? Digitals are not cheap. I have quite a few 25-35 year old cameras that still take good pictures and I am concerned about the cost of digitals that may turn out to be useless junk in just a few years. Just what are the stats on long term (say 5 years) use of digitals ?
SLRs(film and digital) are generally rated in terms of the shutter life. In the old days, the life expectancy of most consumer cameras with silk shutters(K1000, SRT, FTb, etc.) was generally in the range of 50,000 cycles, or around 14000 36-exposure rolls of film. Pro cameras like the Nikon F and Canon F-1, which generally had stainless steel or titanium shutters, were rated for 100,000 cycles.
Now a days, pretty much all SLRs have aluminum alloy shutters. On consumer cameras(D50, D70, 30D, D Rebel), the life is still about 50,000 cycles. Pro cameras(1Ds MKII, 1D MKIIn, D2Hs, D2Xs) are rated at 150,000 cycles. As far as I know, the EOS 1v and F6 are also rated at 150,000. The difference is that most people will never run 1400 rolls of film through their film cameras, while many people easily hit 50,000 exposures within a year of owning their dSLR. I’ve known of a handful of people who have replaced their dSLR shutters within a couple of years of owning their cameras. Of course, it makes more economic sense to spend $200 to fix a $3000+ dSLR than to fix a $500 film camera.
As always, the key to extending the life of any mechanical device is regular maintenance. You change the oil in your car regularly. Cameras need just the same care, or things start to not work as well as they should.
Sensors also have a finite life. As they age, they tend to sprout hot pixels which will probably eventually render them unuseable. I never have known of someone who has had a sensor go bad in this respect, though.
LCDs were once quoted to have a life of 5 years under normal use. The LCDs on my T70 and T90 are both over 20 years old and both still work fine. They’re both bright and crisp and have no bleeds or any other problems that typically plague failing LCDs. They also both carry an ominous warning in the manual that the LCDs will need to be replaced every 5 years.
Compact digitals shouldn’t have any problem lasting a while, in theory, since many of them have only
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Originally posted by jsoderq
Kodak won’t have anything to do with this. The " warranty" is all figured in the price and Walmart just throws them away. They buy the seconds from the factory to use just for this purpose. The cost of these things does not allow for anyone to take them apart to fool with them. Say is true of all budget electronics - VCRs, cameras, microwaves etc.
They said that I could get a “Reconditioned” Camera…7-10 days…Somewhere in IL there is a sheltred workshop were retarded citizems are recondtioing cameras at 2.00 a hour and piecemeal
What a nice sentiment! I’ll bet at least those “retarded citizens” can spell.
NOW NOW lets play nice guys.
But in Reallity it is a shame that these shletered workshops can get around labor laws and pay there people less then MIn. In Rochester Kodak uses them to refill disposable cameras at peice meal rates. The developmently disabled have to work there to pay for there share of living in the group homes.
How can you pay someone a bit at a time rate?
You should not use terms you don’t klnow what they mean. It makes it look like you belong in one of these establishments.
Actually after reading some of his posts,I’m not sure that is not where he’s typing from!