need help getting actual shutter count on cameras

[michaelnotar]

i have tried several softwares in order to find the actual shutter count on my camera with no luck. i have the canon software v14 that came with my 1d mark 3. any suggestions.

i have a 1d mark 2 and a 1d mark 3, a small jpg from each. im on a mac running os 10.4. thanks

[larry_angier]

I don't know if it is embeded in the Canon raw files like it is in the Nikon raw files, but in Photoshop, when you open your image and then go to File->File Info then go to "Advanced" then look at the field "http://ns.adobe.com/exif/1.0/aux/, you'll find "aux:ImageNumber:" which should be the total number of clicks on the shutter.

[michaelnotar]

thanks, i tried it in PS CS 3 and got to that location, but there is no aux:imagenumber field, lots of other interesting info though.

[MichaelMoenning]

I know Exif Viewer works for some cameras and it would certainly be worth a try. Here's the link: Exif Viewer

[larry_angier]

I realized that I forgot to say that the little triangle on the left side of most items in the list if clicked will open up to more info which should include the activations counter.

Hope this works,

[Doug_Kerr]

To the best of my knowledge, for none of the modern EOS cameras is the shutter actuation count carried anyplace in the output files (in the EXIF metadata or elsewhere).

We keep hearing of miraculous discoveries, how this EXIF reader or that one will read that value, or how it can be extracted from some of the non-interpreted readings reported by EXIF readers, but these all turn out to be bum steers. In most case, the parameter that is "uncovered" turns out to be the "frame serial", the combination of the folder number and file number that were assigned to the frame (for example, on a 20D, "245-4587".)

I believe that in early 1-series EOS cameras, the shutter actuation count was embedded in the EXIF metadata, but no longer.

I believe that the actuation count can be read out with apparatus had by Canon service centers over the "test" interface.

[Jerry Skrocki]

There is the German software CanCount that accurately determines shutter count for Canon EOS 1D series camera. There is a trial version, but in order to get the shutter count you have to buy it.

CanCount Version 1.33 für Canon EOS 1D(s) Serie- by Enjoyyourcamera.com