eskoi.pohjanpalo Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>How image number can be found in Nikon Df? I have the camera, but have not found the way in manual to get this information.<br>Thanks, Esko</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>The image count in embedded in the EXIF data in each image file from the camera, NEF or JPEG: http://www.photo.net/nikon-camera-forum/00Nu42</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eskoi.pohjanpalo Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>How I can see this EXIF data?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammer531 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>Go to nikonshuttercount.com and follow the directions . You must use an unaltered jpeg .</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>I wonder why Nikon could not put that in the EXIF data it displays itself. I don't know how other cameras do it, but on the D3200 there's plenty of room for another line.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirteenthumbs Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>Adobe Bridge</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psul_aul Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>I just recently discovered the Picasa photo editor - a free download from Google- will show shutter count. Select View from the pull down menus and click properties. Shutter count is way down on the list, but its there.<br> Just check your most recent photo and that should give shutter count on the camera. <br> I agree, it seems silly you have to use third party software to find this. I wonder why the shutter count is not displayed somewhere on the camera?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 <p>The free file reading and changing program Irfanview also includes the shutter count as the last entry in its EXIF readout, listed as "total pictures."</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Nikon does put a lot of EXIF data on display, such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO sensitivity, GPS coordinates (if available) .... Those data change from frame to frame. No sure why anybody needs to know the shutter actuation count constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebu_lamar Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 <p>I never paid attention to shutter actuation count but this post made me curious and I couldn't find out the shutter count on my Df either.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebu_lamar Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 <blockquote> <p>I wonder why Nikon could not put that in the EXIF data it displays itself. I don't know how other cameras do it, but on the D3200 there's plenty of room for another line.</p> </blockquote> <p>Nikon could do that as it's easy but Nikon intentionally do not want you to read that. The shutter count is more or less for their own use rather than the consumer. Cameras like the F5 and F6 have shutter count too I think but I don't think anyone outside of Nikon know how to read it. </p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <blockquote> <p>No sure why anybody needs to know the shutter actuation count constantly.</p> </blockquote> <p>I do - I actually use it as part of the filename created while transferring images from the card to the computer using DownloaderPro. Need some way to make unique filenames - and the shutter count certainly is unique for every image. Hence the filename created contains date, camera used, shutter count. Setting up the correct code to do this in DownloaderPro can be a bit cryptic - but so far I managed for every camera model I use(d). Has the advantage that I never need to search for a tool in case I NEED to know the shutter count ;-)</p> <p>FWIW, best tool I found is Phil Harvey's exiftool: <a href="http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/">http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/</a>. If one desires a GUI for it: ExiftoolGUI is fine: <a href="http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/">http://u88.n24.queensu.ca/~bogdan/</a>. Jeffrey's online EXIF viewer makes use of Phil Harvey's exiftool: <a href="http://regex.info/exif.cgi">http://regex.info/exif.cgi</a>.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <blockquote> <p>I do - I actually use it as part of the filename created while transferring images from the card to the computer using DownloaderPro.</p> </blockquote> <p>No Dieter, even you don't need to know the shutter actuation count constantly, which would have taken up valuable space in the viewfinder or the rear LCD (or top LCD?). I suppose it could have been a menu item.</p> <p>You only need the actuation count during file transfer to the computer, which happens maybe once a day? Maybe twice a day at the most. That can easily be extracted by software from EXIF to generate new file names during transfer. You also don't need to read those numbers yourself.</p> <p>Again, I simply don't see why anybody needs the up-to-the-second shutter actuation count often enough to justify an extra display on the camera. The current access via software extraction on a computer is more than sufficient.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>Point taken Shun. Actually about the only time I wish I had direct in-camera access to the shutter count is when I am in the store checking out used cameras.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psul_aul Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>"Point taken Shun. Actually about the only time I wish I had direct in-camera access to the shutter count is when I am in the store checking out used cameras."<br> When buying a used camera checking the shutter count is about the most frequent advise peope suggest here. In a camera store checking cameras it really isn't possible to take a photo and download into a computer to check the exif data<br> A simple menu item- it doesn't have to be a dedicated button or a display in the viewfinder. Somewhere it could be checked when needed. With the vast amount of options and settings available in camera menus these days, I can't think it would be in the way.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bebu_lamar Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <p>I think Nikon doesn't want you to know.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 <blockquote> <p>When buying a used camera checking the shutter count is about the most frequent advise peope suggest here. In a camera store checking cameras it really isn't possible to take a photo and download into a computer to check the exif data</p> </blockquote> <p>Why not possible?</p> <p>I did pretty much exactly that when a friend of mine bought a used 16-85mm DX AF-S VR a few years ago. She found a seller via Craig's List. It happened that both of them worked for the same large company in Silicon Valley so that they met at headquarters. I went along to the transaction and bought my D7000 body and a laptop computer. I mounted the seller's lens on the D7000 and captured a few RAW files on both ends of the zoom range, then I inserted the SD card into the laptop and used PhotoShop to pixel peep the center and corners. That whole process took merely a couple of minutes since that lens was really good. If I had spotted any problems, I would have captured additional images to check things out further. I could have easily checked the RAW EXIF data in PhotoShop (would have been pointless in that occasion since I was using my own camera).</p> <p>If anything, I think everybody should use a similar procedure when buying a used digital camera or lens.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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