Shutter Counts on Ebay

[squash]

I just received my M8 from Ebay. The seller advertised that there were only 537 shutter actuations.

How can make sure that this is true?

 

[nikon_sam]

Ask to see all 537 photos taken with the camera...

Or you can have Leica service confirm this for you...(I'm guessing they provide this...)
I know that Nikon service has a program to do this...

Someone will have the correct answer for ya if you don't like this one...

 

[Rob-F]

Do you really want to know? What if it has 837, or 1028, but turns out in the long run to be a more trouble-free sample than another one that only had 437?

 

[ChrisN]

With my Pentax dSLR, the camera writes the true shutter count deep into the exif data of each image file. Using a free software called PHOTOME I can read this value. It might be worth trying this to see if the M8 also writes this value to files.

 

[coolfotog]

Go to opanda.com. - download - load photo taken with your MM- follow instructions-it'll tell you exactly how many actuations your m8 has.

 

[splitimageview]

Take a jpeg, look at the EXIF data (I use EXIF Viewer on the Mac) there is a hexadecimal number in the EXIF, convert it to decimal (there are some web-based hex converters.)

 

[GrahamWelland]

Image Unique ID in the EXIF is the actuation count in hex.

 

[popeye]

Take a jpeg, look at the EXIF data (I use EXIF Viewer on the Mac) there is a hexadecimal number in the EXIF, convert it to decimal (there are some web-based hex converters.)

Soooo.... which hex number? I see many! I had this issue with another viewer, I mean what the date and time value? Color space value? What am I missing here because EXIF Viewer does not display 'UniqueImageID'...

And you know I'm beginning to think like Rob F said - does this really matter in the end?

 

[splitimageview]

See where it says 'Unique Image ID'?

Take the last digits and convert from hex to decimal.

This is using EXIF Viewer.

 

[popeye]

I see it in your dump, but not mine. Not wishing to complicate matters (this is really more an exercise for me...) but the that line of data does not appear when opening image files on any exif viewer I use. Maybe the info is stripped out from iPhoto (it's all I have on the road to manage images with at the moment...). Hmmmm very interesting...

 

[user237428934]

I don't see this field in the normal exif-viewers of my mac. I use exiftool (command line tool) to see all exif fields.

 

[ampguy]

actually

actually

according to other m8 owners, Leica cannot confirm this data. The exif data collected is also unique images written to card, not shutter actuations, and not permanent metadata.

Ask to see all 537 photos taken with the camera...

Or you can have Leica service confirm this for you...(I'm guessing they provide this...)
I know that Nikon service has a program to do this...

Someone will have the correct answer for ya if you don't like this one...

 

[250swb]

Here is a hex to decimal converter

http://www.easycalculation.com/hex-converter.php

Find the Unique Image ID number in the EXIF file using Bridge or Ifranview etc. Put the last numbers and/or letters into the converter (not all the zero's) and it will tell you the total shutter counts so far.

Steve

 

[ruslan]

Do you really want to know? What if it has 837, or 1028, but turns out in the long run to be a more trouble-free sample than another one that only had 437?

Of course it is good to know, it is camera mileage, my M8 for ex has more than 85k on shutter.:bang: