Can Magic Lantern show the wrong shutter count on a Canon 500D?
Asked 7/21/2013
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I bought a Canon 500D new from a store and have only used it for about four days, taking roughly 200 photos. After installing Magic Lantern, its shutter count reading shows about 14,000 actuations, which seems impossible for my usage. Is Magic Lantern known to report incorrect shutter counts on the 500D? Is there another reliable way to check the shutter count on this camera?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
13y ago
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Few remarks:
- You won't find any shutter count in metadata.
- Canon cameras may be sold with significant shutter count, as part of their testing / quality check.
You want to try EOSInfo (which works) or directly write your own program with Canon's SDK. Then you'll be able to tell if EOSInfo and ML are giving the same shutter count or not.
Canon doesn’t have shutter count included on the EXIF information of an image file, as opposed to Nikon and Pentax. There’s no official Canon based application to find the shutter count for an EOS DSLR. However, there are a few free tools that may help you to do this. They provide some details about the camera, including product Name, firmware version, battery level, shutter Counter, date/time, and owner/artist/copyright strings.
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Yes, it’s possible to verify the count with another tool. Canon DSLRs generally do not store shutter count in normal EXIF metadata, so you usually need a utility that reads it directly from the camera. Community suggestions were to compare Magic Lantern’s result with a tool like EOSInfo, a shutter-count website, or software built with Canon’s SDK.
If another tool reports a similar number, then the count is likely real. If it differs significantly, Magic Lantern may not be reading it correctly on your 500D.
Also, a camera sold as new can still have some actuations from factory testing and quality control, though 14,000 would be unusually high for that alone. If multiple methods confirm a count near 14,000, contact the retailer, since that could indicate the camera was not actually unused.
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