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Jun 23, 2011

Checking Your Shutter Count

Finally, wanted to find out how many shots I've taken with the K100d. I downloaded Exiftool. Exiftool is a command line tool. Unzip that file. I do not know whether the path Exiftool is specific in Windows. Since the tool is small & you do not need to install it, my suggestion is to just cut & paste Exiftool to a temporary directory. Copy & paste your photo to the same directory. Go to Start Menu, Programs, Accessories and click on Command Prompt. Change the directory to where your temporary directory is located. Then type "exiftool imagename.jpg" You have to type in the full filename including the .jpg or .pef etc.

Here's my shutter count


Besides the shutter count, you can also see things like circle of confusion, your hyper focal distance, view of view. Have a blast.


Then I check up on the photo before the K100d was handed to me & I realized the shutter count was around 3,600. Practically brand new. In a span of 7 month, I've shot closed to 6,300 shots. Off course I bracketed my shots for HDR & shot a bunch of photos to stitch a few panoramas.

By the way, the photo I took was really crappy so I'd rather not post it up here.