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Opanda offers both armature (free download) and professional version ($) that will allow you to see the shutter count. While we haven’t extensively tested this we know that it does work on many Canon models.

Look down the IExif file to line 0093. You will see a number like 18 00059196. The last numbers are the shutter count. You can test this out by releasing the camera and you will see the shutter count change.

"Opanda's site states that IExif 2.3 only supports Nikon's D200/D2H/D2X/D70(s)/D50(s) and later. I just verified this, in part, by checking a .jpg image from a D100 -- no data!. Same holds true for a .jpg from a Sony DSC-F828."

From their web page: Opanda IExif is a professional Exif viewer in Windows / IE / Firefox, From a photographer's eye, It displays the image taken from digital camera and every item of EXIF data in the image from beginning to end. The user can learn about how and where to take the photo, what the camera's model is, the detail of photographer and more in IExif. You can know more information and some unbeknown story. It is not only the good assistant to study photography, but also the best choice to view EXIF for photographer, shutterbug, photo editor and so on...

http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

Fuji
"With FUJI S5 PRO, you get the shutter count directly on the camera with the set up menu."

dprewiew.com
One Stop Data Base for Digital Cameras. Tons of useful information for the camera repair shop and tech; Release Dates, Current Street Prices, Discussion Forums, Service Advisories and more.

Most of us use a sliding scale now so knowing the street price; release date and service advisories are a must. Many look over these pages first thing every morning as they set the days repair lineup.

Image Sensor Cleaning

Expanding Your Services

Cleaning the Nikkon Coolscan 5000ED, LS-4000, LS-40, LS-50
"I've done 4-5 of these -- it's reasonably easy, and you can get a fair price for the work."

http://www.pearsonimaging.com/articles/howto/ls5000cleaning.html

Software for Camera Repair

http://www.ghisler.com/picture.htm Look at the picture and you will see the split screen. You can have it on the right or left of you complete computer on it; Drive A through G. You can move folders or complete drives over to the left side and never bother the right side or the original.

Now the greatest part. Install a memory card or SD card in your reader. In the right side it will show what is on the card; bad files, good files. You can delete the bad files and save the rest or transfer them over to the left side of the screen.

Then the memory card will work and you can see exactly what was wrong. I had a memory that wouldn’t work in the camera because of all the other files on folders on it. I deleted the bits of folders that were not good or incomplete, then put the card in the camera and it worked. It dose work and the time saved for us is money for sure.

We also tried three free data recovery programs with the following results:

LC-Tech's Photo recovery. Recovered 59 total files, 37 usable pictures.
website: www.lc-tech.com

Zero Assumption Recovery. Recoverd 88 total files, 47 usable pictures.
website: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

PC Inspector smart recovery. Recovered 88 total files, 59 usable pictures.
website: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Of the three the freeware software, PC inspector, appears to be the best, at least in our case. Hope this helps anyone else looking for data recovery. Note: 10/07 PC Inspector smart recovery did not recognize RAW.

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