Comments on: How to find your camera’s shutter count

By: Richard Peters

Richard Peters — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:12 +0000

Matt, thank you for answering that and supplying the links, much appreciated!

By: Matthew Heaney

Matthew Heaney — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:52:23 +0000

Hello Richard,

You asked:

“On a side note Mr Nikon, why IS file naming set to four digits when the D3 amongst others have shutters rated at six figure numbers…?”

The answer is that the file naming convention is specified by a consortium of Japanese camera companies, in the DCF standard:

http://www.exif.org/dcf.PDF

More info here:

http://www.exif.org/dcf-exif.PDF

Both standards are available here:

http://www.exif.org/specifications.html

The file name specification is on p. 9 (section 3.2.1) in DCF.PDF.

Cheers,
Matt

By: Richard Peters

Richard Peters — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:31:26 +0000

Hi Pete, thanks for the tip about Opanda! I don't use it myself but I do on occassion shoot JPEG + RAW on my D3. With my file numbering I seem to be pretty close to same info Photoshop gives me in the EXIF so I'm guessing Photoshop is accurate?

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:26:40 +0000

Sorry to say that I work closely with Nikon who actually state that opanda exif is innacurate with Nikon camera bodies. And, dont forget if you are running dual card slots on a D3 (JPEG + RAW) then this will double the shot count and render it inaccurate, so infact, you can half the shutter count if you do this.

regards,

Pete.

By: Richard Peters

Richard Peters — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:02:24 +0000

Hi Allan, I forgot to mention you need to open a RAW file. The information doesn't show up in out of camera JPEGS or converted TIFFS.

By: Allan Rube

Allan Rube — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:44:11 +0000

The file info looks different on my Mac and I can’t find the count while looking at a tiff I converted from raw using NX.