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"
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.
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
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Columbia, Maryland - USA
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