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ExifTool => The "exiftool" Application => Topic started by: Warren on February 13, 2014, 10:13:25 AM

Title: Shutter count Canon EOS 650D (T4i)
Post by: Warren on February 13, 2014, 10:13:25 AM
I came across this thread  (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,5171.msg24926.html#msg24926) in these forums, and as it's a bit old, I thought I'd make a new one.

You can read the shutter count data for this and other Canon cameras on OS X or Linux computers with the command-line utility  gphoto2 (http://www.gphoto.org).

Plug in your camera, turn it on and at the command line type:

gphoto2 --get-config /main/status/shuttercounter

and it will return something like:
Label: Shutter Counter
Type: TEXT
Current: 8375

You can get a list of what stuff you can get/set with:
gphoto2 --list-config


but be careful -- you're "root" in your camera.