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Shutter counts when shooting movies
Aug 13, 2014 12:41:24 #
This maybe a dumb question, but when shooting movies with DSRL is each frame count as a shutter count or is one shutter count for each sequence you shoot?
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Aug 13, 2014 23:36:39 #
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Aug 14, 2014 06:20:28 #
But since a movie is a series of images taken very, very quickly, doesn't taking a video put extra strain on your shutter mechanism?
Aug 14, 2014 06:53:48 #
NoSocks wrote:
But since a movie is a series of images taken very, very quickly, doesn't taking a video put extra strain on your shutter mechanism?
To the best of my knowledge, the shutter stays open for the duration of the video, and your camera becomes a camcorder.
Aug 14, 2014 16:19:23 #
Aug 14, 2014 16:54:53 #
joecashew wrote:
MT how do you get your shutter count on a Nikon D300
Its in the EXIF data.
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Aug 14, 2014 17:36:42 #
Aug 14, 2014 17:41:05 #
cz3056 wrote:
This maybe a dumb question, but when shooting movies with DSRL is each frame count as a shutter count or is one shutter count for each sequence you shoot?
When taking single shots or sequential still shots the mirror and the shutter fire continuously, so one shutter count for each frame. For video, the recording mode is different, so the mirror shutter mechanism opens and stays open for the duration of the video sequence, so effectively it opens and closes once for a second or for 5 minutes, time is not a factor.
I can't talk to Nikon, although others say shutter count is in the EXIF data. For Canon this is not usually the case, but there are computer based applications that can interrogate the camera and display the information, and the primarily video oriented magic lantern software ( a run time extension to the camera's firmware for various models) will also display shutter count information, both single shot and video count.
Aug 14, 2014 17:49:55 #
joecashew wrote:
MT i hate to ask but is EXIF data
The EXIF data is incorporated into every digital image. It contains all the specific and technical data used to produce that image in the camera. It also includes the total shutter count on that camera for Nikon, Pentax, Sony, Olympus, pretty much every camera but Canon. For some reason Canon works really hard to keep that info secret.
You can get a lot of EXIF data readers, or even upload an image to many different websites to obtain the shutter count on your camera. I use P.I.E from Picmeta.com. Its free software that will read the EXIF data and reveal more info than you will ever need to know about each image.
Shuttercount is much the same as an odometer on your car. It tells you how many times that shutter has tripped, exposing an image or video, but does not tell you how the camera has been treated overall.
Aug 14, 2014 17:55:45 #
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