Do you know your shutter count?

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This may not be new to many of you but I have just discovered this software for opening up all EXIF data from an image.Total shutter count is included.

It is free and works well. I thought it may be of interest to some of you guys wot is interested in such fings!

My D70s for instance has now done 14058 actuations. I guess given all this summers' work plus the current Xmas parties, I must have done about 13000 of those! And My "new" D200 has done 6550 already.

To get the shutter count you will need an image direct from the camera. As soon as it is "processed" through Photoshop, EasyShare or the like it is lost.

http : / / www . softpedia . com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/KUSO-Exif-Viewer . shtml

late info: just tested it with 2 Kodak compacts and shutter count info is not there, so it seems only SLR users will get shutter count but all the other useful EXIF data is there.I have also been informed that you may not see shutter count from Canon info but definately Nikon!


Useful info? - well I guess that up to you guys!

Best wishes and Happy Chrismas and New Year to all.
 
Canon dont include shutter count in the EXIF info. Ho hum
 
I can't check it at the moment as im at work, but I estimate to be in the 20k-25k region after 8-9 months of usage.
 
Don't know why Canon seem so shy to allow people to see the camera's shutter actuations.

Personally I'd find it useful to know that if my 5D shutter had a 100,000 actuation cycle, when I was approaching it. Be a real bummer to go out on a job only to find the shutter plays up cos it's done 105,000 clicks. Had I know it would have been off to service at 98,000 or so.

Having said that at 100,000 I'd probably bought 2 or more bodies by then anyway :shrug:

Anyway the file numbering changes every 9999, so I suppose you can alway count the number of times it goes round. ( Notches on the base plate ?)
 
I'm probably wrong but with canon at least my 300D is the shutter actuation not about the same as the last file number the camera made. ie last photo I took gave filename CRW7775, I always thought that was the amount of times the shutter had been actuated unless of course it has been reset back to zero.
 
Frank

On the 5D you can set the file counter to start at 0001. When it reaches 9999 it reverts, to 0001.
Caught me out for a second when it happened
 
Just installed it now. Thanking you! I'm only on 7900 and something, best get shooting!
 
ed_o_brain said:
~12400 actuations.

So someone has been tellling porkies.

Do you reckon I should say anything to the seller? To tell the truth I never believed it in the first place and I'm just relieved it's not 100,000 !!!
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I would tell him how you found out, and see what his reply is. Did he sell you it, saying he had it from new? If so, then he is guilty of miss selling, and should offer you some sort of recompense!
 
natjag said:
Canon have a shutter count on the 1d series cameras.
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iirc the 350d has this aswell, as when i sold mine i was asked to check :).
 
Strange isnt it, I dont know about you but it was never an issue when I shot film.:D
I think my D200 is on about 6000, I wonder what it would be on if I was putting Velvia through it.:lol:
 
Bought my camera on the 25th April. Shutter count 3212. Think I could afford to be a bit more liberal with my shooting.
 
either im blind or it doesnt say on my olympus, what am i looking for ?
 
18500 since June
 
Shutter Count: 62738

Camera purchased: June 2007

Jeeesus! :lol:

I guess 5000 a weekend though isn't unheard of!
 
dellipher said:
Bloody hell Lee!!! DO you have and RSI?
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LOL. After a doubleshow, I often feel "if I see life through the viewfinder again....i'm gonna kill someone".

Sure enough, the weekend after i'm out again! :D
 
my 5d has less than 500 on the counter, it's about 8 months old now
 
mmm i've done over 7000 shots in one day before (most weekends 2-3000), its strange as at the end of the 5 hours of so of shooting on that day I was swapping between 3 fingers to press the button....
 
How do ever get through and process them? Also, how did you cope when you used film?

I'd rate the Preview Extractor software (link above somewhere) for Nikon users.
 
I've always been a digital man. Sure, I had an old Pentax SLR but this was before I came into business so it was never a problem (ie 1 film every blue moon).

Processing / workflow is key ;)
 
I really need to get out more.... My D70 has 7644 actuations since new in August 2004 :eek:
 
My D300 has the grand total of 23. :D
 
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