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Hello all,
I have recently bought a D700 and would like to find out the shutter count, how many photos my camera has taken before I bought it. I have been lead to believe that some supposedly new cameras have extremely high shutter counts. Can anyone advise me on how to go about it? Any information would be greatly appreciated and thank you for your time.
Here's what I do (I use Mac):
First I take a RAW photo and put it on my computer.
Then I open it in Preview:
I get to the Inspector through the Tools menu:
And then I go through the More Info tab to the Nikon tab:
There, I find the shutter count.
Hope this helps.
Or use a program like Opanda or KUSO. Open a jpeg image and look for the shutter count. Be aware though that using an unformatted memory card could trick the camera into displaying a false or higher shutter count. Also your camera, even if new, will never show zero or 10 shutter actuations. so unless the shutter count is 13,000 or something really high I'd say your fine. Unless you use a memory card form another D700 with a lot of shutter clicks. Then it's going to be off.
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/KUSO-Exif-Viewer.shtml
Welcome to the forum Maximus
Wow! I had no idea you could do that. Thanks Alphanorex.
thank you all for your response. While I'm asking questions how offten do i need to calibrate my camera?
Calibrate your camera as in having it sync with lightroom or photoshop and such? Or do you mean something else. What's your workflow look like?
Hey NikoDoby, I was told that it is wise to calibrate your camera every year or so after 10000 frames. I think it has to do with the cameras colour calibration. I'm not sure I'm new to the game. cheers for finding time to answer my questions.
by the way NikoDoby, my shutter count is at 1500 which is about right for the time I'v had it. cheers for the links, much appreciated!
Anytime Maximus. If your just using your D700 for fun and your not making color critical prints I'd say you'll do fine without calibrating. Basically calibrating your camera requires software such as Adobe Camera Raw. This is a program that is used with Lightroom and Photoshop. If you don't use these then you don't have to mess with anything on your camera.
The calibration requires you to adjust your monitor, printer, and camera. The adjustments take place in the software and you don't actually adjust anything in your camera.
What you can mess around with are the different color spaces in your camera(sRGB,AdobeRGB)but I would recommend you just leave it set to the default color space (sRGB, I think).
So just get to know your camera and forget about the calibrating stuff for now. In the future you can buy software like Spyder Pro or Color Munki to calibrate your monitor. But if you stick with sRGB color space you should be OK for now.
cheers love your work!
Hey thanks Maximus. Good luck with the D700. It's a great camera.
Just shoot RAW and fix the colors in post... oh wait, wrong thread :)
As long as you are happy with the results you are getting on whatever medium you will be viewing you shots, I wouldn't worry much about color calibration. Although I will say that almost every monitor needs calibration out of the box. If you use a LCD type monitor, I'd just try and find a calibrator to borrow from a friend. LCD's (unlike their bulkier CRT counterparts) don't generally change post callibration. CRT's have a lot more drift and need to be recalibrate every so often.
As for your camera... I don't know really. My Nikon's have all been pretty good about showing me the same color as I get in my on screen (or in print). When there is a difference, its usually the monitor that's at fault. Cannon is playing catch up with Nikon on this one (although the newer camera LCD's are equally gorgeous).
EDIT: Some more on calibration here: http://www.bythom.com/qadcolor.htm
Rather than starting a new thread, I was browsing my photos today and decided to see how many shots I had taken, and decided to look back over old ones.
I looked at DSC_0005.jpg, and it said the shutter count was 39.
Anyone know why this could be?
It was the fifth shot from that camera, the camera was brand new (box was untampered) and the memory card was brand new too.
Probably tested the shutter during manufacturing. Maybe factory calibration.
Very interesting! My camera says it's at 10,000 shots, but I've only had it since... late April? That doesn't seem quite right.
Hm, then again, I just checked how many shots I have since then on my computer, over 5000. So if I put in all the ones I've deleted, it would seem like a reasonable number.
Talking about count does it not annoy you that the file numbers max out at 9,999 why not 99,999 and when shooting on a single card the max is 999
Pete
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