Number of Clicks

[bnorm27]

Hey guys. Currently shooting with a Rebel XTi. Was thinking about selling it to upgrade to a 40D. How would I go about telling how many clicks I have on this camera? I thought I read on here that you could use the software and find out. The last picture I took is numbered on the camera as 101-3846.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[ukcatfan]

Have you crossed number 9999? And if so, how many times?

 

[boBQuincy]

There is some software that works for Canon SLRs with the Digic 3 processor (Xsi, Xs, 40D) but none that I know of for earlier Rebels.

 

[ssanders79]

Take a picture and look at the EXIF data and look for the word actuations.

However, my quick google search turned up that Canon does not include this in the EXIF data. I have a Nikon so I cannot verify.

I did find this.....

If you have never reset the counter... and set to be sequential/continuous (vs reset with new card).
Frames are 0-999 and folders are thousands after that
101 would be 1000-1999, and
111 Would be 10,000 to 10,999, etc

 

[jann1033]

Hey guys. Currently shooting with a Rebek XTi. Was thinking about selling it to upgrade to a 40D. How would I go about telling how many clicks I have on this camera? I thought I read on here that you could use the software and find out. The last picture I took is numbered on the camera as 101-3846.
Thanks for any help you can provide.

where did you find this info? my images just have the date and the number that resets everytime you format the card. (although maybe i would rather not know how close my camera is to collapsing) when i download the card with my last photos on it in the downloader the last image is mg_7911 but that is all i can find except the shot date

 

[Amy]

Now you've got me curious - this is something I never heard of. So the "number of clicks" is like the odometer in a car, and when buying used you want the lowest number? I know I've "turned over" from 9999 at least once on my S3. Is there a certain number of clicks to be wary of? Like if you buy a used car with 100,000+ miles on it, you know it won't last very much longer.

I gotta admit.....I learn something new all the time on the Photography Board!

(ETA: is this something with only dSLR's? Where can I find the info on my S3?)

 

[elliot]

My first post on this great community!!!

All cameras (DSLR & P&S) have a shutter lifespan expectancy. The number of actuations (clicks) depend of the maker and model of the camera. This site show a camera shutter life expectancy database with users input.

olegkikin.com/shutterlife

You can use this free application to read exif info of your pictures and see the actuations (shutter releases) of your camera (if is available on the exif data)

opanda.com/en/iexif/download.htm

Hope this help!

 

[YesDear]

I agree with Elliot and welcome!

Let me also say that while they have a life expectancy, many of the better cameras will far exceed their stated expectancy. But as with everything, some do better and some do worse!

 

[jann1033]

stilll don't see how many mine are( already had opanda, it doesn't show it on mine) but the oleg site said "Average number of actuations after which shutter is still alive: 36,817.5
Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 173,848.8" so i'm still good to go for a while evidently since best i can figure it's around 8000, although one said 199-8007 so maybe that has rolled over once or twice.

oh boy, just downloaded this http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/KUSO-Exif-Viewer.shtml
it has a lot more info that opanda but says file number is "379 7993" so still not a lot of help. i've been checking ans so far everthing says you can't find it with other/older canon

 

[madge]

stilll don't see how many mine are( already had opanda, it doesn't show it on mine) but the oleg site said "Average number of actuations after which shutter is still alive: 36,817.5
Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 173,848.8" so i'm still good to go for a while evidently since best i can figure it's around 8000, although one said 199-8007 so maybe that has rolled over once or twice.

oh boy, just downloaded this http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Digital-Photo-Tools/KUSO-Exif-Viewer.shtml
it has a lot more info that opanda but says file number is "379 7993" so still not a lot of help. i've been checking ans so far everthing says you can't find it with other/older canon

that's what I'm finding, too ... I have a 300D/Rebel

I'm up to file number 3615, after having passed 9999 once.

and this is what it says for my camera:
Average number of actuations after which shutter is still alive: 53,849.6
Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 22,344.7

no idea what any of it means. LOL

 

[boBQuincy]

no idea what any of it means. LOL

Without a lot of data points, not much. The classic "bathtub curve" defines the kind of reliability we might see from our shutters: some fail early, a small number fail somewhat later, and a lot fail at some distant time. The numbers on the oleg site are interesting but there just are not enough reports with which to build a good curve.

Canon has reportedly issued some average lifetimes which afaik show 50K for Rebels, 100K - 200K for XXD (and maybe newer Rebels), and more for 1 series.

 

[madge]

Without a lot of data points, not much. The classic "bathtub curve" defines the kind of reliability we might see from our shutters: some fail early, a small number fail somewhat later, and a lot fail at some distant time. The numbers on the oleg site are interesting but there just are not enough reports with which to build a good curve.

Canon has reportedly issued some average lifetimes which afaik show 50K for Rebels, 100K - 200K for XXD (and maybe newer Rebels), and more for 1 series.

if I'm at 36xx after passing 9999 once, then I'm probably somewhere around 13,600-ish (give or take) actuations?

 

[jann1033]

if I'm at 36xx after passing 9999 once, then I'm probably somewhere around 13,600-ish (give or take) actuations?

plus just to thicken the plot, a few articles i read said different exif programs give different results which is true with mine since one place has the 199 prefix, the other the 379 prefix although both have the same other digits...and 300 rebels must come back to life since the "still alive" is larger than the "deceased" number

 

[bnorm27]

Thanks for all the responses guys. I don't think I am only around 1900 pictures. I generally shoot a few hundres at a time. I had someone tell me that when you moved into the 101 file, that you had crossed 10,000 shots, and that would probably put me around 13,846 or so. I was hoping that someone could confirm this. That number is much closer to where I think I would be. Thanks again!

 

[jann1033]

yeah when i think about it that way, i usually take at least 150-250 shots each time i go out which is at least once a week and i used to take probably upwards of 250-350 each time( i am trying not to take multiples like i did with file) so that is at least 30,000( 2 yrs old camera),not including things like vacations when i take that every day,

shooo maybe i need to start worrying about the shutter