

I uses an official Canon SDK (Canon ED-SDK) to retrieve and set all camera information (shutter count is retrieved via an undocumented function). But it does not support this features: Editing the owner/artist/copyright and synchronizing date/time within the local PC's date/time.įor that, I wrote a new utility that includes all these features by integrating those that were missing. They provide some details about the camera, including product Name, firmware version, battery level, shutter Counter, date/time, and owner/artist/copyright strings. However, there are a few free tools that may help you to do this. There’s no official Canon based application to find the shutter count for an EOS DSLR. Newer cameras store more images in each folder, so the mathematics change.Canon doesn’t have shutter count included on the EXIF information of an image file, as opposed to Nikon and Pentax. Modulo 100 may sound frightening, but in reality it means just take the two right hand digits.
Under DCIM there are two folders at present: 291CANON and 292CANON. I then realised that the first 3 digits are in fact the folder number on the memory card. That makes more sense – the last image was IMG_9222.JPG. One EXIF data tool reports the number as 292-9222.

On my 10D, it shows 2929222 approaching 3 million shots which is clearly wrong. The number of shutter actuations on older Canon cameras is encoded in the 'Image Number’.
