bradhusick
Active member
For those of you wondering how to tell the number of shutter actuations on a given camera, the file name will most often NOT be the true number of actuations. The file names can be reset at any time.
Here's the method I use to determine the acutations. I know this works for Leica M digital cameras and probably works for others too. There are other ways to do this, but here's one that may help:
Take a JPEG photo. Then load that file into an EXIF reader in your browser to get the HEX value, then convert to decimal.
Here's the online EXIF reader:
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Look for the file name/number. It should be a string of many zeros
followed by a few letters. Take the last 6 numbers/letters and use
this to convert to decimal:
http://www.easycalculation.com/hex-converter.php
for example, "0004CE" is 1230 in decimal. That's 1230 actuations. Voila.
Here's the method I use to determine the acutations. I know this works for Leica M digital cameras and probably works for others too. There are other ways to do this, but here's one that may help:
Take a JPEG photo. Then load that file into an EXIF reader in your browser to get the HEX value, then convert to decimal.
Here's the online EXIF reader:
http://regex.info/exif.cgi
Look for the file name/number. It should be a string of many zeros
followed by a few letters. Take the last 6 numbers/letters and use
this to convert to decimal:
http://www.easycalculation.com/hex-converter.php
for example, "0004CE" is 1230 in decimal. That's 1230 actuations. Voila.