Though I heard from a friend yesterday that he knows of an original 12.8mpixel 5D that has over 800,000 shutter releases after having it's shutter mechanism attended to on a regular basis. The 7D is much more lightly used, reporting just over 17,000 shutter clicks. In the end, the 5D MkII reports just a few ticks over 58,000 shutter actuations after five years of very hard use. I didn't take the time to read any of it after finding my own work around. I'm sure there is plenty of detailed information in the various bug lists for Debian based Linux releases for what's happening or how to properly operate gPhoto2. Terminal command line "gphoto2 -get-config /main/status/shuttercounter"Īttempting the 7D approach of finding and then killing PIDs related to gPhoto2 when connecting a 5D MkII did nothing but bump the PID by 2.Connect a USB cable between the computer and camera.
In the case of the 5D MkII, I needed to do the following. In my case, the "gphoto2 -get-config /main/status/shuttercounter" command then worked."kill -9 " of all processes found in the prior command.Read the process(es) ID (PID(s)) of anything that says "gvfs gphoto".Terminal command line "ps aux | grep gphoto2".I experienced two wrinkles, both having to do with being unable to lock the port or finding the port in use by another program. Type "gphoto2 -get-config /main/status/shuttercounter" to read the shutter count.Open a terminal to access a command line interface.gPhoto2 installed from a terminal command line "sudo apt-get install gphoto2".Installed on a 4 gig USB stick using unetbootin.My recipe for getting at the 7D's shutter count and confirming the 5D MkII's shutter count is as follows. This is why I turned to Linux and gPhoto2. It gave a correct count when I connected a 5D MkII, but it did nothing for a 7D. To be completely honest, I tried EOSInfo first. Yes, it was the Linux + gPhoto2 approach. You can probably guess which approach I took. Linux + gPhoto2 is an Open Source Software solution that might drive some people nuts.EOSInfo is free, but can't report some DSLR shutter counts (including the 7D).I use Canon cameras, so what to do?Ī quick search using the Force (google) revealed several methods. Apparently other manufacturers are not so guarded. Canon is well known for not allowing easy access to a camera's total shutter click count.
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