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Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Onecanucl — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:36:51 -0000

With Olympus it is built into the camera, a few buttons pressed and all that info is available.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Shutter Actuations — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:44:46 -0000

how to find out my nikon 5D MKII shutter count? anyway for the nikon camera you can just upload your photo to http://www.shutteractuatuio... to check out your nikon shutter count instantly.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Sun, 08 May 2011 08:04:33 -0000

Guys, on a Mac, there's really no need to install anything... just open the DNG (raw) file in Preview. Then Tools > Inspector, select the EXIF tab and/or Nikon tab. Every bit of the data that's in there is displayed.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

janathan — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:35:43 -0000

i did not fine the shutter actuation in PHOTO ME :((((

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Andrew — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:49:20 -0000

To save time you can just upload an image to http://www.camerashuttercou... and it will return the shutter count.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Greg — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:50:51 -0000

That PhotoME program is excellent! Thanks for the tip.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Goldfrapp — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:04:21 -0000

Thanks for the ExifTool + Terminal command. Worked like a charm. Shutter count on my D200 is 4110. What a shame.

Anyway, here are more detailed steps for Mac users only:
1. Take a photo with your camera
2. Transfer it to your computer
3. Place the photo onto your Desktop (for the sake of simpler and shorter location path)
4. Right-click the photo and choose "Get Info"
5. Copy the location path under "Where"; it should be something like "/Users/blah-blah-blah/Desktop"
6. Download ExifTool application
7. Run the installer
8. Once installed, quit installer
9. Launch Terminal application
10. Once launched and ready, type in the following command line: exiftool -ShutterCount /Users/blah-blah-blah/Desktop/title-of-your-photo.jpg
11. Hit RETURN button

Note that the Terminal command line is case-sensitive. Moreover, don't forget any spaces, dashes, slashes. Blah-blah-blah is the name of your Home folder (whatever you call it). Title-of-your-photo is the name of your photo, ending in ".jpg" or ".JPG". Makes a difference. Good luck!

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Kathy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:58:48 -0000

PhotoME is a free download that is SAFE. After you download it, go to any photo that you haven't edited. Right click photo OPEN WITH........select PhoteME, and you will see lots of data on the screen. In the 3rd group, look for SHUTTER ACTUATIONS & the number will be there. This programs beats the others hands down.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

picmax — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:49:43 -0000

The shutter life expectancy is just an average number. Some can laster much longer than the average. If it is not broken there is no need to replace it.

Max

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

vingur — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:59:07 -0000

Hi odelio, Im allso new to dslr, just bought the EOS 50D. anyway when the shutter meets the average numbers of actuations that simply just means that you have to get a new shutter. it does not mean that you can just throw the camera away. But I dont recommend you changing the shutter by yourself, have someone fix it for you. Best regards

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

picmax — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:37:52 -0000

Looks like it is either not finding the image file or not able to run the exiftool program. I'd suggest you try this:

1) cd to the directory where the image file is.

2) run the tool like this: /full-path-to-exiftool/exiftool -ShutterCount <name of="" the="" iamge="" file="">.

If you have the exiftool in /usr/bin/ directory and the image is IMG_1007.CR2, it would be something like this:

/usr/bin/exiftool -ShutterCount IMG_1007.CR2

All command and file names are case sensitive on unix-like systems.

Max</name>

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Ralf Hettler — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:19:09 -0000

Hi !
I installed Exif tool and then I tried to find out the shutter count of some files on my hHD
I'm not familiar with that kind of TERMINAL > What I got is this :

Last login: Tue Jan 27 10:48:22 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount "/Volumes/ANNIKA\ 2/08.12.15\ Guille\ TENNIS/\ RAW\ Guille\ Tennis/IMG_1007.CR2"
File not found: /Volumes/ANNIKA\ 2/08.12.15\ Guille\ TENNIS/\ RAW\ Guille\ Tennis/IMG_1007.CR2
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /IMG_1007.CR2
-bash: /IMG_1007.CR2: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /000000647661_Large.jpg
-bash: /000000647661_Large.jpg: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount "/IMG_1007.CR2"
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount "/IMG_1007.CR2"
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount "/000001627063_Large.jpg"
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount
-bash: iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~: command not found
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount
No file specified
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /IMG_1007.CR2
-bash: /IMG_1007.CR2: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$

Can you tell me what is going wrong ?
THANKS

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Andrew — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:53:19 -0000

Its not that there is a parameter. Its just that after a while the shutter tires out and may stop working, as my did the other day. Its not something you can predict.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Tony M — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:29:24 -0000

The person who gave the advice about Flickr was right...I just did it.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

ManhCamMan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:55:02 -0000

Hi everyone! Can you tel me how to remove this “total number of shutter releases for camera” parameter ? please!

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

Kate Mackley — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:33:40 -0000

If you have a Flickr account, just post an UNEDITED photo, straight from your Nikon camera (don't know if it works with Canon, etc) to Flickr and enable exif data. The shutter actuations will show as "total number of shutter releases for camera." This does not work with photos that have been edited via Adobe products.

Re: How to Find Out the Total Shutter Actuations of your DSLR

odelio — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:02:36 -0000

hi there...i'm really confused because i'm new in DSLR and mine is D80.... i just want to ask if for example my D80 shutter meets the average numbers of actuations which is 368,092.4, does it mean it will no longer work? or do I have to change the my whole D80???please help....

thanks in advance