How do you find out how many actuations a camera has?

Question

I'm looking into buying a used 30D, and I'm wondering whether there's way you can tell without sending it to Canon or whatever.

Answer 1

Have you tried looking at the EXIF data on your files?  Some cameras keep track of then in a special location in that data.   There are EXIF "readers" that can let you see every thing it contains.  Opanda is one.

You are looking for a listing called .... Total Number of Shutter Releases for Camera = 1234 or some other number.

Answer 2

take a pic and look at the file number.

the counter does NOT reset when you pull the memory card but it can be reset in the menu options.

Answer 3

IIRC Canon doesn't have it set up so you can tell. Once you take the memory card out the counter resets.