How many shutter activations???

[rbweddle]

I just bought a used Canon T2i body on ebay. I looks and works great and has no signs of wear. I have seen ebay ads that state how many shutter activations a camera has had. How do you determine this???

Bruce

 

[OLaA]

Eoscount.com

 

[Majeed Badizadegan]

Shutter actuations*. Sometimes you must send the camera to the manufacturer to get an accurate number.

 

[OLaA]

Never had any issues with eoscount syncing with any of my cameras. Are there known issues?

 

[480sparky43 42]

Try Opanda. But I don't think Canon embeds actuations into the EXIF.

You can also try to upload a JPEG to myshuttercount.

 

[SquarePeg39 1]

If you have Picassa, you can right click on the pic, select "properties" and it will be toward the bottom of the list of phot data. For Nikon anyway... Just checked a pic I took with my Sony and the shutter couunt info is not there.

 

[cptkid]

Never had any issues with eoscount syncing with any of my cameras. Are there known issues?

Well if someone has reset the firmware then technically the figure you a getting from the EXIF data could be wrong.

When I bought my used D7000 is showed 860 shutter actuations, which clearly not right. Most likely someone reset the firmware at some point and it set the count back to 0

 

[TCampbell]

This has been discussed before. Nikon embeds it in the EXIF data. Canon does not. Canon has their own internal utilities which they wont release (if you send it to support, they can see your shutter count.)

eoscount should work (requires Windows).

 

[OLaA]

Never had any issues with eoscount syncing with any of my cameras. Are there known issues?

Well if someone has reset the firmware then technically the figure you a getting from the EXIF data could be wrong.

When I bought my used D7000 is showed 860 shutter actuations, which clearly not right. Most likely someone reset the firmware at some point and it set the count back to 0

Firmware update/reset has no affect on how EOScount retrieves the shutter actuation information.

 

[480sparky43 42]

...... Canon has their own internal utilities which they wont release (if you send it to support, they can see your shutter count.) ..........

Does Canon charge for this? If so, I can see it being a business decision. But if they do it for free, I think it would behoove them to simply put it in the EXIF.

 

[TCampbell]

...... Canon has their own internal utilities which they wont release (if you send it to support, they can see your shutter count.) ..........

Does Canon charge for this? If so, I can see it being a business decision. But if they do it for free, I think it would behoove them to simply put it in the EXIF.

Typically you'd only send in a camera if it were having a problem... but they can read the shutter count. They don't really sell a service of telling you what the shutter count is. If you buy a Canon Professional Service Gold or Platinum membership then you can send in your camera for a free checkup and cleaning (well 'free' with a 'paid' membership to CPS). I suppose you could ask them to report the shutter count. But as eoscount will do it for you, if all you want to know is your shutter count then there's no reason to send it to Canon.

While Canon doesn't specifically embed the data in the EXIF and they don't make a specific utility for shutter count, they DO freely make their EOS developer SDK available. So anyone who wants to write a shutter-count utility using Canon's SDK (which changes from time to time and probably doesn't work for all models) is free to do so. So it's not like they're locking people into something to extract cash... that what their accessories sales are for! ;-)

 

[480sparky43 42]

Typically you'd only send in a camera if it were having a problem... but they can read the shutter count. They don't really sell a service of telling you what the shutter count is. If you buy a Canon Professional Service Gold or Platinum membership then you can send in your camera for a free checkup and cleaning (well 'free' with a 'paid' membership to CPS). I suppose you could ask them to report the shutter count. But as eoscount will do it for you, if all you want to know is your shutter count then there's no reason to send it to Canon.

While Canon doesn't specifically embed the data in the EXIF and they don't make a specific utility for shutter count, they DO freely make their EOS developer SDK available. So anyone who wants to write a shutter-count utility using Canon's SDK (which changes from time to time and probably doesn't work for all models) is free to do so. So it's not like they're locking people into something to extract cash... that what their accessories sales are for! ;-)

So I guess Canon doesn't consider the shutter count the photographic equivelant of an odometer. Too bad they aren't listening to their customer base about it.

 

[gsgary]

Whats the point just shoot until it stops

 

[PixelRabbit]

I'm kinda afraid to find out my shutter count I'm sure it is at least in the 500K+ range, if I knew I would start worrying about my camera, I'm a bit of a nit like that!

 

[cptkid]

Never had any issues with eoscount syncing with any of my cameras. Are there known issues?

Well if someone has reset the firmware then technically the figure you a getting from the EXIF data could be wrong.

When I bought my used D7000 is showed 860 shutter actuations, which clearly not right. Most likely someone reset the firmware at some point and it set the count back to 0

Firmware update/reset has no affect on how EOScount retrieves the shutter actuation information.

Fair enough...I don't know about Canons, as I don't shoot with any digital Canons