Shutter Counter

I've been reading in some of the posts about a counter to record the number of shutter operations of a camera. Having looked at the manual and Menu of my K100D i can find no reference to the counter. Does the K100D not have one or more likley am i looking in the wrong place?

Hi,

I've no experience of K100D but it won't cost you anything to find out if its the same as K10D/K20D (my gut feeling is that it will be)

The K10D/K20D keep an internal count of the total number of shutter activations and output it in the EXIF information contained in each picture.

To access the EXIF information you will need a special programme which can be downloaded free from www.photome.de (web site in English).

Then you just open the picture using Photome and it will tell you simply tons about the picture...

There are other (free) exif readers such as OPANDA but PhotoMe gives the most comprehensive coverage that I have seen.

Good luck
Bob

I thought it was, in effect, the file number the camera gives to the picture.

The file number can be reset. There is a separate hidden counter that is not reset when the file number is reset. This can be viewed via PhotoMe. I can't remember exactly what they call it now, but you'll find it.

It may be useful after purchasing a second-hand camera to verify how much the camera has been used.

Including the temperature of the camera at the time!

I've just downloaded Photome, quite amazing but I'm certain it was much colder than that last Friday morning! Why does the camera have a thermometer?

Is it something to do with:- colour temperature

Thanks Bob. Photome is amazing!!! To think all i did was press the shutter release.

No!

The K100D is amazing, Photome just gets in on the act

The thermometer is inside the camera so is affected by warmth from the battery and circuitry - explaining why the reading may be higher than the air temperature outside.

I suppose the camera uses the thermometer to monitor itself. What it does with the reading, if anything, I can only guess.

I'd hazard a guess that if the internal temperature goes above a (factory) preset limit then the camera will switch itself off to try and prevent any damage. Not had the bottle to try this out with the K10D and an oven yet though...

Perhaps it helps the camera compensate for the CCD behaving differently at higher temperatures?

No chance of using the camera as a hand warmer then?

BTW now that winter is here, two exhausted PP9 batteries plugged together make an excellent hand warmer.