Depending upon your intended use i would be less concerned about the shutter count than the overall health of the camera body itself.
Canon 5d mark iii shutter count life.
5d mark ii s shutter assures trouble free operation over its 150 000 cycle.
Beyond that most professional level cameras like the canon 5d mark are rated for 100 000 or more shutter cycles.
Canon 450d canon eos rebel xsi s shutter life is about 50 000 actuations.
Whilst the screenshots in this review show results from my canon 5d mark iv i also tested a 7d mark ii which worked in exactly the same way.
It vary widely by model.
There have been 1d cameras designated as mark iii too.
As soon as you switch your camera on the app will display information about your camera and shutter count in a simple tabbed display.
Canon eos 6d 100 000.
Is that a 5d series camera.
What is the maximum shutter count rating for my camera.
Canon eos 1d x 400 000 uses a carbon fiber shutter mechanism.
What exactly is a mark iii.
How ever it is not known when your shutter will fail you.
In addition to shutter count and image sensor hours i would be interested in mirror activations and its total usage time.
Canon eos 5d mark ii 150 000.
If a shutter decides to fail it will fail whenever it gets good and ready.
On 25 august 2016 canon announced the camera s successor the canon eos 5d mark iv.
That said many cameras well outlive their rated shutter life by tens if not hundreds of thousands of cycles.
Canon eos 5d mark iv 150 000 probably will go over 200k because of the mirror vibration compensation mechanism canon eos 5d mark iii 150 000.
Ask for a shutter count when you send the camera to canon for a cleaning and check out.
Please note that this shutter lifetime value is tested and expected from the canon.
Wikipedia canon eos 5d mark iii shutter rated lifespan is 150000 actuations.
Obviously canon s professional models last much longer than entry level model.
The eos 5d mark iii combines fast 8 channel data readout from its 22 3 megapixel cmos sensor and the supercharged processing capabilities of its digic 5 image processor with a speedier shutter and mirror system to raise the performance bar for all digital cameras capturing full frame images and recording them fast to udma or sd cards stored.