F3: What do you guys think about an F3 with 1200 working hours on board

Cristian Mihai

Cristian Mihai

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Hello guys.

I have an opportunity to get an F3 for a good price, the trick is that that camera has already 1200 hours on board. What do you think about this. It;s save to buy it ? Is the sensor or other components relying on running hours like still cameras have the shutter release number ?

Best regards
 
Mine is at 500,000 hours - still works great. I have been doing the world's longest time-lapse. Going to try to get a vimeo staff pick with it.
 
Unless it looks like it was physically abused I would not worry one bit about 1200 being on the counter.
 
eddavid said:
Mine is at 500,000 hours - still works great. I have been doing the world's longest time-lapse. Going to try to get a vimeo staff pick with it.
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Ed, according to my math, the camera started rolling the year I was born (1957) also an excellent year for Chevy. Am I missing something? That aside, since the advent of card based cameras, hours on a camera means very little.
 
mainstreetprod said:
Ed, according to my math, the camera started rolling the year I was born (1957) also an excellent year for Chevy. Am I missing something? That aside, since the advent of card based cameras, hours on a camera means very little.
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Yeah, 500,000 hours works out to almost 58 years. Obviously, Ed got hold of an early prototype of the F3. Or maybe .... back then, was there a FILM camera called "F3"? :laugh:
 
Hours shouldn't really matter, it shows the camera actually went out and did jobs. Not sit on the shelf or was a lemon. As long as there was no cosmetic damage or wear and tear damage on the controls, it should be fine.
 
Ken Hull said:
Yeah, 500,000 hours works out to almost 58 years. Obviously, Ed got hold of an early prototype of the F3. Or maybe .... back then, was there a FILM camera called "F3"? :laugh:
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haha
you guys are the best. yes it the same camera they shot I love Lucy on.
 
Hours don't matter on a solid state camera. Instead make sure all the buttons work and where the camera was used. I remember that one F3 that got caught in a sand storm, or one guy who dropped his in salt water. Those matter. 1200 studio and around town hours are nothing.
 
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