[yakubin]

Every photo taken shortens the life of a sensor.

[riversflow]

To add to this, with those particular cameras(it’s the frame I shoot on), you’re encouraged by the form factor and ergonomics to turn them off when idle to get the most out of the smallish battery, they boot in like 1s. A battery is good for ~350 shutter pulls, I don’t want to use one of those every time I think about taking a picture.

Also, a dead pixel is not a ruined photo, it’s a minor inconvenience in editing at worst. And every photo I take on a FF is getting edited, the gorgeous RAW output is what I’m there for.

[lakpan]

> minor inconvenience

Do you have software that automatically fixes this issue in all the pictures at once? Because as a non-professional I can only think of a very manual approach.

On my old phone, dust made its way into one of the cameras and now all of those photos are forever ruined (or until I find a way to somewhat automate this fixing)

[sudosysgen]

That's not really true, it's only a problem for the shutter. The sensor doesn't really break.

[yakubin]

You’re right. I misremembered. The term is “shutter life”. Same result though.

[dghlsakjg]

Yeah, but that’s like saying your mechanic shouldn’t take test drives because every mile driven shortens the life of the car.

The shutter, which is replaceable, is normally rated, for 200k-1mm actuations MTBF.

Even taking a reference photo every day won’t truly impact shutter life.

Anecdotally: I have a 20 year old Canon 1D that is 50% over it’s rated shutter life, and that camera was used for photojournalism (used HARD) for most of its life.

[caseyohara]

Most (all?) mirrorless cameras these days have an electronic shutter too, so it's not like it would put any extra miles on the mechanical shutter.