We take more than 5 million pictures every month using a pool of 250+ Canon 5D and Canon 1Ds mkII cameras. Recently, Jon was contemplating buying a 5D and wanted to know how long the shutter life was. Hey, we can answer that using real-world numbers!

The Canon 5D is rated for 50K+ shots, but they last much longer, and fail after an average of 150K shots.

The Canon 1Ds mkII is rated for 200K+ shots, but actually lasts for 750K shots before shutter failure!

Someone else might find these numbers useful.

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This might save someone some time and hassle. Recently, I needed to print on a friend’s Canon PIXMA iP6700D printer from my Fedora 7 laptop. Turns out that the default drivers used in this setup print blank sheets and useless micro images rather than anything useful.

Looking around for help resulted in some pointers to this Canon FTP site, but it never responded. Digging a little further turned up this useful page, mostly in Japanese, but if (like me) you don’t read Japanese, you can find the files you need by searching the page for the file sizes. The two files that you need for the iP6700D are:

cnijfilter-common-2.60-3.i386.rpm

which you can find by searching the page for “24,410 byte”, and

cnijfilter-ip6600d-2.60-4.i386.rpm

which you can find by searching the page for “2,054,347 byte“.

Download these two files, install them as root with ‘rpm -ivh cnijfilter-common-2.60-3.i386.rpm cnijfilter-ip6600d-2.60-4.i386.rpm’, and you should be able to find the new driver in the GUI printer config tool, system-config-printer.

Incidentally, it looks like the source RPMs are there too. Pretty cool!

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