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Finding the number of shutter acuations.
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I have a couple of Canon cameras that will be for sale this week but I need to find out
the number of shutter acuations on each of them…Canon 5D and Canon 1D MK111.
Looked on the net and nothing was successful yet.Noel.
You can’t find out on the 1D MKIII unless you send it back to Canon so you’ll have to guess. Shutter count doesn’t really matter as it could fail at 10K or 300K.
I thought you could find out on the 5D – you definitely copuld on the 40D’s etc. I can’t find anything on it now but I was able to find out on an old 40D of mine a few years ago.
No way of doing it on the 5D – don’t know about the 1D.
I think Canon can do it when e.g. during servicing, but there’s no user-accessible method.Thanks lads…Ballyman…I will let you know in a day or two…just organising
all the gear for sale.Noel.
Hi Noel,
To find the number of shutter actuations, just take a shot and load it onto Flickr (presuming you’re actually registered with them?).
Select that particular image from your photostream – click “actions” – choose “view exif data” and about halfway through the list you’ll find it beside “Image number”.
Hopefully that’ll help but if you’re not a member of flickr, I’d be happy to do it for you – just email me a dud photo, I’ll load it into mine and check it for you. PM me if you need to.
Cheers,
Markmarkclehane wrote:
Select that particular image from your photostream – click “actions” – choose “view exif data” and about halfway through the list you’ll find it beside “Image number”.
I just looked at all my shots (1D MkIV and 1D MkIII) and the image number is always 0.
Hi Noel. I’ve heard that Photo Mechanic can show the actuations. It might be worthwhile downloading the trial version.
PM gives you a frame number alright but it’s only the number of actuations since you last reset the file numbering on the camera so it’s not reliable unless nobody ever reset the file numbering which is unlikely.
Ah thanks Ballyman. That wouldn’t be of much use to anyone who uses their camera a lot & using several cards I guess.
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