kevinplui
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I know there is a Canon shutter count program for Windows, but I'm wondering if there is one for Mac.
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Is there a Canon shutter count program out there for Mac?
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kevinplui
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Thanks! I'll check it out!
Jestertheclown
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Using 'Picasa,' you can right click on an image, then click on 'properties' which opens a display which tells you everything except which eye you closed.
The 'shutter count,' referred to as the 'image number,' is in there.
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The 'shutter count,' referred to as the 'image number,' is in there.
"It's good to be . . . . . . . . . Me!"
As far as I know, image number and shutter count are two different things.
Shutter count is the number of times the shutter has operated. You need software like the free exiftool to read this information.
Image number varies depending on the camera settings for the numbering of images and the last image number used on either the camera or the card.
If you have your camera set so that the image numbers increase sequentially, if you were at image number 1000 with the card in your old camera, when you move the card to your new camera, the next image you take is 1001, whether the card was formatted or not.
To get round this, you can reset the count to zero (which the camera then stores) or put a brand new card as the first card you put into the camera. Then the camera counts up from 0000.
However, if you want to check that your new camera hasn't been used before you received it, image number won't tell you that information because image number (as remembered by the camera) can easily can be reset to zero.
Jestertheclown
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I'd wondered about that too but it's not the case.
Before I posted the above comment, I checked the image number/shutter count on one of the most recent images that I've taken and Picasa tells me it's (about, I can't recall exactly) 6,900.
I also checked a couple of others that I'd taken the previous weekend and they came up at 6,750(ish).
I know that the difference between the two figures is consistent with the number of shots that I took on the second weekend; therefore the counter must be counting the total number of shots taken shots that the camera's taken.
I don't have the camera; it's a D90, set to record the total number of shutter actions. It resets to zero, whenever I change/format the SDHC card.
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That's interesting. I spent ages trying to find out if I was the first owner of my "new" a7RII!
The best advice was to download the latest version of exiftool, which did list the shutter count and verified that I was the first user. I had put in an SD card that had been used in my a7II so the first image number was high (1000) and not 0001 even though I had formatted the card.
When I put in a new SD card, the number still continued sequentially from 1000 since the camera now remembered it was at this high image number and was in "sequential" mode.
If I used the "reset" numbering system in the camera's menu, I believe that it would return to zero image count every time I formatted and replaced the SD card. For pros, it's probably good to start the image count from zero for each shoot and "reset" mode does this.
If you have a new camera and a new card and the camera hasn't been used by anyone else (or has been reset to zero), the image number (with sequential numbering) will be the same as the shutter count.
Jestertheclown
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I bought my D90 used in mint condition with fewer than 3,000 actuations, which I checked (it was correct) using Shutter Counter.
I then began taking shots with it using SDHC cards that I'd previously used and formatted in my D3100. The numbering sequence began at 0001 which, for some reason, hasn't been your experience.
Actually, I quite like the idea of starting from zero each time I go out, it was the default setting on the old Fuji that I worked hard for years and I've rather got used to it.
Having said that, my D3100 was set to record the actuations continuously when it came out of the box and I've never changed it!
That's how my D90 works, so I'm guessing you're right.
That would be right too.
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Vernon D Rainwater
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Jestertheclown
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If I'm right about Picasa, that should do the trick.
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