Do you know your shutter count?

My D50 has 4092, and wont be increasing with my as the current owner :)

My D200 will certainly be having more actuations though :) - No idea how many it's taken tho :/
 
found this on another forum, after seeing the link on ebay.

I read this on a other forum and thought I'd pass the information on to everybody over here that might not know this little trick.
Most of the time this is a frequency asked question all over the internet.
So if you have the 1D (and I think the 1Ds too).

If you have a MKII with updated firmware you should be able to get the count in Photoshop CS2 or CaptureOne. In Photoshop open the file and go to File > File Info and then click on Advanced (last item in the list) and select http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/aux and look for an item called Aux: ImageNumber. That should be the shutter count. I think it might also work with a JPG, but am not positive.

In Capture One you can hover your mouse over a RAW file and it should open a box that has image serial number among other things (on a PC, on a Mac you need to go to Get Info in Capture One).
 
39k in 18months on my 20d
 
at a guess i mine is about 9500 actuations i have kept it on continuos and added aa few for when i shoot tethered straight to pc.
 
Im thinking my D80 is on around 3.5-4k since Feb 2008.
 
frank said:
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.
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...or unless you've swapped memory cards between cameras.

I believe (but I'm not quite 100% sure) that in Canon systems the number in the image filename is one higher than the last image shot, or one higher than the highest number on the card, whichever is the higher.

Say you have a new camera (zero actuations). Put in a card and take 100 shots. Then remove the card and put it in another new camera. The next image will be numbered 101, even though the shutter actuation count is 1.
 
3200 ish since June 16th, that's based on the image numbering. The cards have only been used in this camera, and I haven't reset the image number count. I'll take a look at Mole2k's method later and make sure they match.
 
Does this software require update ???

My 1DS MkIII only shows a shutter count of 1 but I know its taken 2000 photos :thinking:
 
I Have tried Mole2k's method on my 20D and the count has come down by 48,000 in just over 12 months. :shrug::shrug:
 
StewartR said:
...or unless you've swapped memory cards between cameras.

I believe (but I'm not quite 100% sure) that in Canon systems the number in the image filename is one higher than the last image shot, or one higher than the highest number on the card, whichever is the higher.

Say you have a new camera (zero actuations). Put in a card and take 100 shots. Then remove the card and put it in another new camera. The next image will be numbered 101, even though the shutter actuation count is 1.
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Aha! That'll explain why my 5D seemed to start around 9000 as I used the same cards that I do with my 30D. I thought I'd been sold a refurb or something. I also thought it was a bit of a coincidence that both cameras seemed to be working taking shots at around the same sort of number too.
 
my D80 has nearly 18,000 in a year which i think is pretty reasonable
 
Absolutely no idea with my 10D. Bought refurbished a few years ago and I've done roughly 35,000 with it.
 
jamess said:
64,520 :eek: since early 2007 on my 30D, according to mole2k's method
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Funny that - precisely the same for me too on my 30D

I don't think this method works as advertised :thumbsdown:


Well, I know it doesn't because the true actuation count on my cam is in the region of 16,000
 
It seems to work for me fine, it originally was in the right ball park then took more pictures and it incremented the correct amount on from the first total. Thats on a 20d, no idea how it works for other canon cameras.
 
mole2k said:
It seems to work for me fine, it originally was in the right ball park then took more pictures and it incremented the correct amount on from the first total. Thats on a 20d, no idea how it works for other canon cameras.
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The guy who posted the article in your link says his method is good for a 20D. He opines that it may be good for a 30D, but he offers no guarantees. I guess we've proved it isn't.

Its a good find, though Mole - I'd always thought there was no way of telling the shutter actuations on anything except a 1D (and some Nikons). I assume that the raw files from a 30D are different from those taken with a 20D - presumably the info's in there somewhere - just not at 95D.
 
Yeah id imagine the info could be found if you knew where to look, unfortunately i've no idea where to even begin?
 
I guess you could compare 3-4 raw files taken in sucession and see if you get one value which increments with each file, sounds time consuming though!
 
mole2k said:
I guess you could compare 3-4 raw files taken in sucession and see if you get one value which increments with each file, sounds time consuming though!
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or find someone with a known shutter count then look for that number...still time consuming though :(
 
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