Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

The OP does not have a Nikon, and there has been no mention of a cannon. Do cannons even have shutters?

We don't know what kind of computer the OP has.

craig.j.tucker

I have a Canon Rebel t4i

OS = Mac Sierra and Windows 10

Szalajj Loc: Salem, NH

I just watched a YouTube video where a software from sourceforge.net would get you the shutter count for the Canon Rebel T5.

The poster was using Windows 10.

Peterff Loc: O'er The Hills and Far Away, in Themyscira.

On Windows 10 I use EOSmsg.com. It is a simple download. The latest version has a fee of around $5 for each different camera. It records every 'mirror up' event so covers both still photos and video. I would recommend downloading directly from http://www.eosmsg.com/ , some alternative download sites may include other unwanted software in their downloads.

Good luck.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Have you used one of the shutter counters on it yet?

Rebel series cameras are generally rated to 75,000 shutter actuations. This is much like "mileage" on cars, though... it doesn't mean the shutter will always fail at click #75,001. Nor is it limited to just the shutter. There are other components that can fail. And, a lot depends upon the exact usage.... not all "actuations" are equal. For example, the shutter and the electronics of a camera that's been used for a lifetime of 30 second video clips might easily have hundreds of hours of use on those components. In comparison, a camera that's taken 75,000 still photos at an average of 1/100 shutter speed might have less than half an hour of total time on the same components.

And that 75,000 "clicks" is merely a guess-timate by some engineers when they design the camera and specify the components it will use.

Here's a website that compiles voluntary user-reported shutter count data for various camera models: http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/sitemap.php

Their page devoted to the T4i has a somewhat limited number of responses (the T4i/650D was a fairly short-lived model). It shows that a fairly significant percentage have survived at least to that 75,000 level and more than a few have gone well past that. (http://www.olegkikin.com/shutterlife/canon_eos650d.htm) But because it's purely voluntary and the relatively small number of responses, I'd take any info found there with a grain of salt.

More info about the Kaplan-Meier analysis used at the above website can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaplan%E2%80%93Meier_estimator