This is one of those things that annoys me greatly! Every time i come to sell or buy a used camera I want to know the shutter count. Its a bit like the mileage on a used car, its not a primary factor in my buying decision but it helps me understand how the camera has been used and if it matches up to the buyers description!
Shuttercount 3.0
Shutter counts, also known as shutter actuation, are an estimation of the longevity of the usage of the camera. It is a record of the number of photographs taken by the camera. If you were buying an old or second-hand camera, this becomes one of the crucial pieces of information, indicating how much the previous user had used the camera.
The digital picture did a great review of the 5D Mark III and also expected shutter usage for a number of cameras.
The problem is that Canon never provided a way to find current shutter count natively (come on Canon!), so this opened the door to developers to use the Canon SDK to write their own way to do it. Unfortunately what we have now are a multitude of blogs, articles and online sites that offer to provide this service. Some were free and now are not, some have been taken down, some point to apps that no longer work! All things considered its a bit of a pain to perform this simple task!
I am currently going through this process yet again and needed to determine the shutter count on my Canon 5D Mark III. After some searching and frustation i came across an app called EOSInfo.exe that did the job perfectly, however, i couldn’t find the owner and the homepage http://magic.shabgard.org no longer exists.
Use this tool to check your camera's shutter count and find out when the camera was manufactured. Note that if you upload an image that has been processed by Photoshop, etc., it might not be usable as some of its EXIF data could have been stripped. If, instead, you want to find a ‘good’ shutter count rating, most cameras range between 100,000 and 200,000 shutter count ratings. Some professional cameras can be between 400,000 and 500,000. Unless you work as a sports or wildlife photographer and often use burst mode you can consider the 100,000 – 200,000 average as a ‘good. If, instead, you want to find a ‘good’ shutter count rating, most cameras range between 100,000 and 200,000 shutter count ratings. Some professional cameras can be between 400,000 and 500,000.
![Shutter count Shutter count](/uploads/1/3/7/4/137402788/361536981.jpg)
So, i have decided to host it here with a few basic instructions. I provide no warranty or gurantee that it will work, just that it worked for me and I quite liked it!
So, i have uploaded to my OneDrive here: EOSInfo
Instructions for use (From the Readme!)
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- Turn Off Camera
- Connect Camera to USB Port
- Turn ON Camera
- Close EOS Utility if Open
- Wait for Result
- Turn Off Camera and Reading Result
.and this is the screenshot from my 5D3 – dead simple!
Find Canon Shutter Count
Wondering how many your canon DSLR camera shutter have actuated? This tutorial will show you how to check your Canon camera’s shutter count. Please take a note, not all canon EOS camera shutter count can be read out, only recent digic III and IV camera should be able to read out. There are many methods to get the shutter counts, but you definitely will use a computer either MAC or PC.
Let’s start with Mac. For MAC user, you can use gphoto2 to check your camera shutter count. This also apply to LINUX users, which is rare among photographer ? but the tutorial below i will explain only for MAC user, and I consider LINUX user are expert and can install gphoto2 on its own.
gphoto2 is a free open source program. //www.gphoto.org/proj/gphoto2/ to install gphoto2 on your MAC start your command line console and type this command
The HomeBrew Instalation wil begin, it will install all necessary files for your MAC to be able to run gphoto2. The gphoto2 instalation should complete with no errors.
Nordvpn 1 month free. After the completion of the instalation, you hsould turn on your Canon camera and plug it to your USB cable to your MAC. after this was done you can type this command in your command console:
![Shutter count for pc Shutter count for pc](/uploads/1/3/7/4/137402788/283756164.jpg)
if you are not entering that command you will get this error later
If you are done with “killlall” command you can exploring the gphoto2. To be able ro read the shuttercounter you must have access to the config of the camera. you just type this to read out the shutter count
if it is resulting this informations…
Then your shutter count info is read out, the number of 53288 is the shutter count value. ?
gphoto2 has a lot of abilities you can explore with, it can take pictures from your computer, and there is so much possible uses than just to read out the shutter count.