As an aside, if someone has changed the shutter count, Canon can tell that it was changed and when, but not what the count was before it was changed. The repair service might store it and replace it, but usually doesn't. There are a number of repairs (circuit board replacements mostly, but some others) where the information has to be erased. Plus newer cameras with video mode may get many, many hours of sensor use without any shutter actuations (you might not care about that, but you might if you see the hot and burned out pixels that result).īottom line is if you have access to any of several bootleg programs you can change or reset the shutter count in the EPROM, as can any service center (for that matter you can change the serial number). I do know the cameras may be reading # images stored, actual shutter counts, mirror counts, or another piece of data (I think perhaps shutter button presses) and the program you use may report any of those as shutter counts. If you use different EXIF reading programs you'll get different counts on the same camera. Not pertinent to the 5D particularly, but the reason they don't want to make it easy to obtain is the data is inaccurate for a number of reasons. The answer is no - send it to canon, however, I would think that because it was possible to reset the counter, the withdrew this feature. Maybe they don't want people to see the number of actuations at which the shutters actually fail. Hell, you should just be able to see the count from the camera menus! Why on earth they want to be the keepers of the shutter count, I don't know. You would think Canon would make that information easily available like from EOS Utility or something. Looks like a trip to Canon is the only way unfortunately. Works fine for newer models (5DII, 7D, 1DIV) but not the 5D. That's surprising, the original 5D is in the gphoto list of supported cameras.ĮDIT: Did a bit more hunting around and it seems that although the 5D is supported the shutter count is the one command that doesn't work. I clicked this link thinking that someone figured out how. I'm not really familiar with the 5D but can't the shutter count be read by EOSInfo or gphoto. After reading many articles on internet, I´d like to ask Canon photographers here at FM forum, is there any way to find out a shutter count on Canon 5D camera?
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