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Anyone have Photo Mechanic?

published by Shooter5150 on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 1:19pm

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"

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Submitted by walter rowe on Sat, 02/16/2008 - 3:42pm.

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

Founder, MusicPhotographers.net
www.WalterRowePhotography.com
Columbia, Maryland - USA

Submitted by DwightMcCann on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 2:32pm.

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.

Dwight McCann