nx 300 checking shutter count

nx200USER1 wrote:

the hidden developer menu for the nx system has been discussed many times here, just do a forum search and you will get many results for the button combination to access. But all for naught cos since a couple of firmware versions ago, Samsung have decided to lock us out and that combination has changed.

In that hidden developer menu one was able to access the shutter count or something like that, even to reset it too.

I asked a similar question a couple of months ago, so I too am curious.

I'm familiar with the button combination(s), or at least I was when I tried it with the NX100. From what I recall the menu also allowed the video segment time limit to be disabled, but that never worked for me. I usually save the first few test photos shot on the day that I buy any cameras, so that and the invoice tell me how old the camera is when I inevitably forget. Here's test photo #5 that shows that my NX100 is a little over two years old :

As far as the age of the camera, one could possibly call Samsung corp and give the serial number of the camera to learn when the 1 year warranty expired then go back 1 year from there as to its sale date.

I rarely register my cameras. It hasn't prevented me from getting warranty repair on several occasions, since I can always get copies of the invoice from dealers if for some reason I can't find my own copy. On a couple of occasions tech. support asked for serial numbers during calls, so those cameras had registration dates long after the purchase date. I guess that your suggestion could be useful, but only for those photographers that are more fastidious about registering cameras and lenses than I am.

Getting invoice copies is very easy with B&H and you don't need to have anyone do it for you. You just search your account for it online and then download a high quality PDF copy of it. The one time I needed an invoice from Adorama it was slightly more difficult. I had to describe the product and give a reasonably close purchase date, and then customer support found it and emailed me a low quality text copy of the invoice. J&R was a pain to deal with. I needed a copy of the invoice to re-register some software that failed an upgrade, and it took a lot of effort to convince a store manager that I had a valid reason to request the invoice copy, but he eventually did (after a lot of searching, which may explain his reluctance to provide the copy), and he eventually gave me an invoice copy that looked pretty raggedy compared to the original store invoice.