Shutter Actuations

[OsmosisStudios]

Okay, here's my newbie moment for the next little bit.

I'm looking to upgrade my D80 to a D300s, using the sale of the D80 as a source of funding. Hurray, right?

Well, I'd like to inform the potential seller of the shutter count on the body. Sounds simple, and it usually is. Using EXIF viewers on a recent JPG file, I've found that the shutter count comes out universally as 2441.

That is impossible, straight up. That's almost as many images as I took in just my commercial work. it's also almost as many pictures that i took last summer in Alaska.

So, somehow it got reset. Question is: what to do.

[kirbinster]

Tough one, guess it depends on how ethical you are. If you don't care and all software shows it as 2,441 then just claim it is lightly used - the data proves it. You could always say it is like a car odometer and rolled over at 100,000 clicks. Don't know what else to tell you.

[Cardiiiii]

Can't you round it off roughly to the nearest 5,000 or 10,000?

[dcclark]

I'd be up front about it. Can you make an estimate -- like "at most 50,000 actuations" for example? If so, I'd phrase it that way. If anyone asks, explain the situation honestly.

[Jim Poor]

Option 1. "[insert exif reader here] shows the shutter count to be 2441, but Nikon insists that the Exif data is not a reliable indicator of true shutter count. This number seems low to me, but I don't know how to get a more accurate count."

Option 2. Pull up your photos in LR or other database software and sort by camera type. Count the number of photos in your library from that camera and make your best guess as to how many you have deleted. Then add in option #1.

I can't speak to the D80, but I know that D3 and D3s bodies will register 6 figure shutter counts, so I doubt it is a "rollover" issue.

[OsmosisStudios]

I was thinking of going that route, dcclark: I can get a rough estimate and say "less than ##k actuations".

kirbinster: I know it's not over 100k, thats for sure. Might be in the 25k-30k. I was thinking of guessing about 35k, just to be safe.

[candleman]

bummer
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hey *snap* i'm also very seriously looking at a D300s upgrade.
D90 was promising until i realsied the AF system is just as crap as the D80.
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i'd go the estimate route, and be honest about what happened to the shutter count.

all the best dude.

[FrankLamont]

Try myshuttercount.com or Opanda IExif - you probably have, but just check it with those if you haven't as a back up.

How much do you estimate that you have?

I checked mine the other day and it was far greater (literally tens of thousands more) than what I expected.

[gturner]

My canon labels images in order from 1-9,999, the clocks over to 1 again

My images today numbered around 2,450 - on the 2nd clock, so 12,450.

Not sure if you can use that method

[OsmosisStudios]

FriedChicken: I have used both those resources, on recommendation of Google. They're both reading the same field in the file, so it still reads erroneously.

gturner: I have my camera set to reset the file numbering whenever i format a card. So that hasnt been an option since the week after i got the camera.

Jim: Sorry I didnt respond earlier: your post wasn't there when I loaded the page. I suppose I could search just for RAW files, assume a delete amount and take a guess. I'll likely do something like that,