I want to make sure that the 40D I am buying from Best Buy today is a NEW camera, not a demo they are trying to pawn off on me. I know that Photo Mechanic will display the number of clicks a camera has in the metadata of a shot.
What I want to do is take a shot with the new camera, send that file to someone with Photo Mechanic, and have them read the number of clicks for me.
"Shooter"
Re: Anyone have Photo Mechanic?
I think anyone with Adobe Bridge or Photoshop can look at the same information via the File Info panel. Send me a link to a raw file I can download. I can e-mail you back what it says.
Walter Rowe - Rowe Images
Professional Photographer
Columbia, Maryland - USA
It Is My Understanding ...
that only the 1D bodies have user accessible click counts. I have heard this repeatedly. I have the latest PhotoMechanic and I inject the actuation count into the IPTC data. For my 5D it is a strange number that simply can't be right. For my four 1D bodies it is a number that always seems to make sense. I have heard that only Canon service centers have software that will read the consumer and prosumer model actuations.