Perhaps you have been enjoying your DSLR very much and are curious if the shutter on your beloved DSLR has approached its life expectancy. Here are some information on how to find out the total shutter actuations.
For both Windows and Mac OS X users, the best tool to use is the ExifTool by Phol Harvey. Simply run the following command in a Windows command window or in Mac’s Terminal window (Replace MyPhoto with the photo file you want to get the shutter count):
exiftool -ShutterCount MyPhoto
ExifTool is a very powerful command-line utility. In Windows, simply drag and drop the photo over its default name “exiftool(-k).exe” and a console window will show you all the Exif information.
You can rename it to “exiftool(-k -a -u -g1 -w txt).exe” to get it to write the Exif information into a text file. This assumes that the shutter actuation count is actually recorded in the Exif.
For more details on how to use ExifTool, please check out the software’s website.
Alternatively, you can try to use software such as PhotoME or Opanda iExif.
Keywords: Digital photography, digital SLR, Digital SLR Cameras, exif, shutter actuations, shutter counts
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hi there…i’m really confused because i’m new in DSLR and mine is D80…. i just want to ask if for example my D80 shutter meets the average numbers of actuations which is 368,092.4, does it mean it will no longer work? or do I have to change the my whole D80???please help….
thanks in advance
Hi odelio, Im allso new to dslr, just bought the EOS 50D. anyway when the shutter meets the average numbers of actuations that simply just means that you have to get a new shutter. it does not mean that you can just throw the camera away. But I dont recommend you changing the shutter by yourself, have someone fix it for you. Best regards
The shutter life expectancy is just an average number. Some can laster much longer than the average. If it is not broken there is no need to replace it.
Max
PhotoME is a free download that is SAFE. After you download it, go to any photo that you haven’t edited. Right click photo OPEN WITH……..select PhoteME, and you will see lots of data on the screen. In the 3rd group, look for SHUTTER ACTUATIONS & the number will be there. This programs beats the others hands down.
If you have a Flickr account, just post an UNEDITED photo, straight from your Nikon camera (don’t know if it works with Canon, etc) to Flickr and enable exif data. The shutter actuations will show as “total number of shutter releases for camera.” This does not work with photos that have been edited via Adobe products.
Hi everyone! Can you tel me how to remove this “total number of shutter releases for camera” parameter ? please!
The person who gave the advice about Flickr was right…I just did it.
Its not that there is a parameter. Its just that after a while the shutter tires out and may stop working, as my did the other day. Its not something you can predict.
Hi !
I installed Exif tool and then I tried to find out the shutter count of some files on my hHD
I’m not familiar with that kind of TERMINAL > What I got is this :
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iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount “/Volumes/ANNIKA\ 2/08.12.15\ Guille\ TENNIS/\ RAW\ Guille\ Tennis/IMG_1007.CR2″
File not found: /Volumes/ANNIKA\ 2/08.12.15\ Guille\ TENNIS/\ RAW\ Guille\ Tennis/IMG_1007.CR2
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /IMG_1007.CR2
-bash: /IMG_1007.CR2: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /000000647661_Large.jpg
-bash: /000000647661_Large.jpg: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount “/IMG_1007.CR2″
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount “/IMG_1007.CR2″
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount “/000001627063_Large.jpg”
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount
-bash: iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~: command not found
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ exiftool -ShutterCount
No file specified
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$ /IMG_1007.CR2
-bash: /IMG_1007.CR2: cannot execute binary file
iMac-PPC-20-iSight:~ admin$
Can you tell me what is going wrong ?
THANKS
Looks like it is either not finding the image file or not able to run the exiftool program. I’d suggest you try this:
1) cd to the directory where the image file is.
2) run the tool like this: /full-path-to-exiftool/exiftool -ShutterCount.
If you have the exiftool in /usr/bin/ directory and the image is IMG_1007.CR2, it would be something like this:
/usr/bin/exiftool -ShutterCount IMG_1007.CR2
All command and file names are case sensitive on unix-like systems.
Max