innerimager Posted February 6, 2008 Share #1 Posted February 6, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Did a search, couldn't find it. How can I see the # of actuataions in the M8? thanks....Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 6, 2008 Posted February 6, 2008 Hi innerimager, Take a look here How to find # of actuations. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
scott kirkpatrick Posted February 6, 2008 Share #2 Posted February 6, 2008 The closest I have seen to this is the unique ID field in the MakerNotes of the EXIF. It increases by one each shot, and seems to be greater than or equal to the sequence number. You can read it with CornerFix (q.v.). scott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted February 6, 2008 Share #3 Posted February 6, 2008 Alternatively use the File|File Info in PS clickon the Advanced tab and click on th e[+] to the left of "EXIF properties". Here you should see a line prefixed with "exif:ImageUniqueID". Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! This number is in hexadecimal notation so you need to convert it to decimal. (It is also zero prefixed, you don't need all the leading zeros.) Google can help you there. In the search field of a Google page type 0x????? in decimal and click on [search] - replace "?????" with the number in the field. Like this. - Carl Edit: You can also see the number in the meta data tab of Bridge (at least the one with CS3) Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! This number is in hexadecimal notation so you need to convert it to decimal. (It is also zero prefixed, you don't need all the leading zeros.) Google can help you there. In the search field of a Google page type 0x????? in decimal and click on [search] - replace "?????" with the number in the field. Like this. - Carl Edit: You can also see the number in the meta data tab of Bridge (at least the one with CS3) ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/44675-how-to-find-of-actuations/?do=findComment&comment=475734'>More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted February 7, 2008 Share #4 Posted February 7, 2008 VERY helpful - thanks. I'd been wondering too. Do any of you bright guys have information on the accuracy of this? Is it affected by the number of CF cards you use? Best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venkman Posted February 7, 2008 Share #5 Posted February 7, 2008 Don't really get the question Chris - that is the number that is written by the cam, which has no idea if you use the same card or different every time you switch it off. BTW - if you use CFs in there, I'd recommend buying the upgrade for extended warranty Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfram Posted February 7, 2008 Share #6 Posted February 7, 2008 Hi, here is an small program which I made for this reason a few weeks ago. Just drag and drop a DNG or unchanged jpg-File on the program icon. the link is http://www.soens.de/m8inf/m8infmac.zip (Mac OSX) resp http://www.soens.de/m8inf/m8infwin.zip (Windows) Wolfram Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eudemian Posted February 7, 2008 Share #7 Posted February 7, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) That is a nice little program, useful, spare, a bit like the M8 in spirit. Cheers Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted February 7, 2008 Share #8 Posted February 7, 2008 VERY helpful - thanks. I'd been wondering too. Do any of you bright guys have information on the accuracy of this? Is it affected by the number of CF cards you use? Best Number of memory cards does not matter. The number recorded by the cameras I've worked with are close enough that I'd say accurate enough. For my own M8 the number is something like 20 higher than the number of captures I've made with the camera. Makes sense that some actuations were made during the QA process at the factory. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP3 Posted February 7, 2008 Share #9 Posted February 7, 2008 Dear Wolfram Your small program works great ! My shutter mileage is 28578 ! I hope it can work through 150,000 before I send it for upgrade. Cheers Matthew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerimager Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share #10 Posted February 7, 2008 Thanks to all, especially to Wolfram for the wonderfully useable program. Love this forum! best...Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted February 7, 2008 Share #11 Posted February 7, 2008 Wolfram - how elegantly implemented. My hat is off to you sir! Many thanks. And just think - he can take photos too! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_tribble Posted February 7, 2008 Share #12 Posted February 7, 2008 and it's exclusive to us too - or at least it doesn't give the actuations from my GRD2 - isn't it funny how that universal standard DNG has so many flavours ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted February 7, 2008 Share #13 Posted February 7, 2008 and it's exclusive to us too - or at least it doesn't give the actuations from my GRD2 - isn't it funny how that universal standard DNG has so many flavours ... The ImageUniqueID is part of the EXIF specification and not specific to DNGs. The specification just says that you place a 128bit number in hexadecimal string notation in this tag. The number "should be a unique identifier for each image". Leica simply chose to use a number we believe to be the number of actuations as a unique ID. Ricoh may use diffrent input or have chosen to omit the tag from the files altogether. Unless Wolfram reads the number from the maker notes section in the M8 files, which for obvious reasons Ricoh do not include in their DNGs. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
glenerrolrd Posted February 7, 2008 Share #14 Posted February 7, 2008 Hi, here is an small program which I made for this reason a few weeks ago. Just drag and drop a DNG or unchanged jpg-File on the program icon. the link is http://www.soens.de/m8inf/m8infmac.zip (Mac OSX) resp http://www.soens.de/m8inf/m8infwin.zip (Windows) Wolfram WOW!! Thanks this is quite useful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted February 7, 2008 Share #15 Posted February 7, 2008 Wolfram, thanks for the really nice program. It even looks attractive. This is a whole lot easier than debugging a jpg and looking for the counter there and then having to convert it. Many thanks. My count is at 12000. No wonder I've got to be so brutal with deleting images. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdrmd Posted February 7, 2008 Share #16 Posted February 7, 2008 Wolfram: Let me add my thanks; this works well. DR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wparsonsgisnet Posted February 7, 2008 Share #17 Posted February 7, 2008 Whatever counter indicator Wolfram is using, it increments properly for additional pictures. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchell Posted February 7, 2008 Share #18 Posted February 7, 2008 Wolfam, Very cool! Thanks, Mitchell (10,117 actuations) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitrox1 Posted February 7, 2008 Share #19 Posted February 7, 2008 Wow, what a great little program. Thanks!! John... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorflow Posted February 8, 2008 Share #20 Posted February 8, 2008 Wolfam: This is a great little program. Is it possible to also show the maximum aperture of the lens to distinguish Lux from Cron from Nocti for example ? I think the info is in the Exif data. Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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