How To Find Out Shutter Count Canon

During the final several weeks, I have received several requests from our readers about finding the total number of shutter actuations on their DSLRs. I decided to write a curt commodity on how y'all can notice the full shutter actuations on both Nikon and Catechism DSLRs, in case you lot are interested in seeing how much you accept been using your camera or how close your shutter speed is to the manufacturers' rated shutter life of 150,000 (on most entry and mid-level cameras) or 300,000 (professional cameras).

1) EXIF Data

The information on the total shutter actuations on your photographic camera is preserved in file headers, known as "metadata" or "EXIF". If you practice not know what EXIF is and what information technology is used for, check out my "What is EXIF" commodity. Basically, your photographic camera writes all exposure-related information such as appointment, fourth dimension, shutter speed, aperture, ISO and a bunch of other important data into the header of each file. Some photographic camera manufacturers like Nikon and Canon too add unique shutter actuations data fields that are used for seeing the total number of exposures or "shutter actuations" cameras have.

2) Switch to JPEG format

If y'all are shooting RAW, information technology is all-time to switch to JPEG format just for getting the required information from your camera. While the camera native RAW format preserves all of the EXIF data that is coming out of the camera, third party conversion software similar Adobe Photoshop Lightroom can strip out some of the proprietary EXIF data, including the number of shutter actuations. Therefore, switching to JPEG volition allow you to view EXIF data directly, without having to import the image into Lightroom or Photoshop start. It doesn't affair what size of JPEG files you choose – even JPEG Bones works fine. Once selected, accept a movie of anything you want.

3) Download EXIF viewer

In order to view the proprietary EXIF data from files, you demand to use an image EXIF viewer that does not strip out annihilation from the file. Unfortunately, almost all current image viewers merely display generic EXIF data that near people employ and ignore the rest. Instead of properly reading EXIF data from files then parsing the results, they typically but await for generic EXIF tags within the file and brandish them when they are available. If something is not available, it stays blank. To reduce the number of blank items to the minimum, they only provide generic information that is more or less standardized across most camera manufacturers.

Since these kinds of image EXIF viewers are not going to work to discover the total shutter count, we will need to use less popular versions of EXIF data viewers, such as Phil Harvey's "ExifTool" and Opanda's IExif.

iv) Viewing Shutter Count EXIF Information via ExifTool

Once you download the single ExifTool executable from this website, motion it to the root drive of your main drive (typically C: on Windows and / on MacOS), so open up the command prompt via Outset->All Programs->Acessories->Command Prompt. If you are using a Mac, fire up the shell concluding. Type "cd c:" in Windows or "cd /" in MacOS to be in the same folder where the ExifTool executable resides. And then type:

Nikon DSLR: exiftool source_jpeg_file.jpg | find "Shutter Count"
Canon DSLR: exiftool source_jpeg_file.jpg | notice "Image Number"

Obviously, supersede "source_jpeg_file.jpg" with the proper noun of your actual JPEG file. The plan should return something similar this: "Shutter Count: 19889" or "Prototype Number: 19889" – the number to the right of the string is the total shutter count on the camera.

5) Viewing Shutter Count EXIF Information via Opanda IExif

If you do not want to mess with command prompts, the best alternative is to employ either Opanda IExif (for Windows). Merely download the latest version of Opanda IExif and install using defaults.

Once the program is installed, open it up and then click the "Open" button to browse to your file. Select the JPEG file and y'all volition see something like this: