Question: Greetings people. I have noticed a lot of discussion about shutter count. My question is....How do you determine shutter count on a camera? This is something I am unfamiliar...

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

Greetings people. I have noticed a lot of discussion about shutter count. My question is....How do you determine shutter count on a camera? This is something I am unfamiliar with.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Mike, in some cases it can be found in the EXIF data. Another way is to check with websites that specialize in providing that information. You simply upload an image and the shutter count will be provided.

What make camera?
--Bob

Bigmike1 wrote:

Greetings people. I have noticed a lot of discussion about shutter count. My question is....How do you determine shutter count on a camera? This is something I am unfamiliar with.

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

if using a Nikon camera. Take a pic in JPG.( must be JPG mode) upload it to the computer . Then go to this page and upload it. it will give you the shutter count .. http://www.nikonshuttercount.com/

IN Canon ( I havent done this in years though ) just find the exif data for a pic and it is in there

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Not all cameras are capable of having the shutter count extracted.
Mine is not, so since I don't do video with it, the image number is close enough for me.

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

If you have a Canon, you will have to use a third party software and a USB A cord. That said, it doesn't always work. The whole point is to see how much potential usage is on the camera. Most cameras are rated for 100k or more shutter actuations. Think of it as mileage on a car. Less clicks is considered "better". My 5D MkIII has about 13K while my 80D has 4500 or so. My wife's 70D has less than 500. For the age of those cameras, that's really good.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

SteveInConverse wrote:

If you have a Canon, you will have to use a third party software and a USB A cord. That said, it doesn't always work. The whole point is to see how much potential usage is on the camera. Most cameras are rated for 100k or more shutter actuations. Think of it as mileage on a car. Less clicks is considered "better". My 5D MkIII has about 13K while my 80D has 4500 or so. My wife's 70D has less than 500. For the age of those cameras, that's really good.

My Canon T1i does not provide the explicit shutter count.

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

Longshadow wrote:

My Canon T1i does not provide the explicit shutter count.

Yeah, not surprised.. I had to have the camera store get my 80D count. I did, however, get the 5D count myself.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

SteveInConverse wrote:

Yeah, not surprised.. I had to have the camera store get my 80D count. I did, however, get the 5D count myself.

Curious, how far off from the picture number was the shutter count?

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

Longshadow wrote:

Curious, how far off from the picture number was the count?

No way to know for sure on Canon as it only records the shutter actuations and not a picture count per se. I can get a very rough estimate by doing sequential file numbers for the pics. It's not off by too much but I think there's other variables at play.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

SteveInConverse wrote:

No way to know for sure on Canon as it only records the shutter actuations and not a picture count per se. I can get a very rough estimate by doing sequential file numbers for the pics. It's not off by too much but I think there's other variables at play.

I just use the picture number as the shutter count.
Every time I click the shutter, the picture number goes up by one - close enough for me.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Longshadow wrote:

I just use the picture number as the shutter count.
Every time I click the shutter, the picture number goes up by one - close enough for me.

How do you keep track of the number of times the picture number is reset to 0000 (after 9999)?

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

Longshadow wrote:

I just use the picture number as the shutter count.
Every time I click the shutter, the picture number goes up by one - close enough for me.

RightOnPhotography Loc: Quebec,QC

Bigmike1 wrote:

Greetings people. I have noticed a lot of discussion about shutter count. My question is....How do you determine shutter count on a camera? This is something I am unfamiliar with.

Go to this site and upload your photo
https://www.apotelyt.com/camera-exif/shutter-count-finder#image-upload

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DirtFarmer wrote:

How do you keep track of the number of times the picture number is reset to 0000 (after 9999)?

I have an Excel file for tracking that (rollovers), JUST in case I roll it over more than once.

I also built a Windows CMD (batch) file for adding "10,000" to image numbers after I download them from the camera to a "From Camera" directory. Once in that directory, I run the batch file.
It changes all the filenames from IMG_####.<ext> to IMG_1####.<ext>, where <ext> is .CR2 or JPG.
For example, IMG_0124.CR2 becomes IMG_10124.CR2.
Then I can move them to the appropriate storage folder without having any file contention problems.
If I roll it over again, I'll change the batch file to add "20,000".
So in actuality, my picture number is still the "shutter count" <approximation>.

My Phone stores the images as YYYYMMDD_######.JPG so that camera is not a problem. (I don't remember what the ###### is, quasi sequential, I'd have to check, time extract of some sort maybe?)

I have to see what I have the Sony H-1 set to name the files, but I believe I have plenty of time before I need to worry about that one rolling over.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DirtFarmer wrote:

How do you keep track of the number of times the picture number is reset to 0000 (after 9999)?

Addendum:

I have a second camera app on my Galaxy phone: Camera FV-5.
Since I like to be able to differentiate which APP took the shot, I have FV-5 saving the files as
"FV5_YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.JPG". This one will not have a rollover problem either.

And the #s above for the Galaxy camera file name are HHMMSS

The H-1, as well as my wife's Sony, and prior Mavica, save as DSC0####.JPG
That can cause some file contention problems....
I suppose I'll have to change the "DSC" to H1_, C60_. MAV_ as required when I download them....