Determine the number of shutter actuations on the Canon 400D or how much the camera took

In the network there is a huge number of programs that promise to show the number of shutter releases on the camera. Some of them do not work at all, some of them simply do not work correctly, showing that the camera took 9 pictures in 4 years. The result is one - Canon 400D does not penetrate any of the utilities found.

However, there was a way out. After 2 hours of searching and trying, the old Canon gave up and revealed his main secret!


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Just want to make a reservation: the path is not very simple.

If you have doubts or the article is not very clear, it is better to go to experienced friends and ask for help. When straining friends, it is better to remember that “thank you” does not gurgle, is not put in your pocket and is not smeared on a sandwich.

And of course, everything that you do with a camera is done with a fully charged battery at your own risk and risk, and no one except you is responsible for “something went wrong”. By the way, before you start, read the post to the end.

Action plan

• check the official firmware version of the camera, and update if necessary
• Install an additional small firmware into the camera, which allows you to download a binary file from a memory card
• we make the memory card bootable, we load our binary on it
• Press the button sequence on the camera and voila: a cherished number!

To fight

You can find out the current firmware version of the camera in the standard menu. Before entering the menu, make sure that the manual settings mode is enabled (the wheel is on top, above the on / off button), for example, mode "P". At the moment, the latest firmware for Canon 400D is version 1.1.1 . On the same link is the necessary description with pictures, and look for the download button on the same page at the very bottom.

All steps for installing an alternative firmware are described in the haratopic: "Overclocking Canon 400d to 3200 ISO . " There is nothing extraordinary in this. There you will also find a description of the work of the new functions that have appeared. But the method of displaying the counter of photos in the topic unfortunately is not fully described, so we will describe it additionally.

Legend

• Menu button: (1)
• Button "Print, with blue indicator": (2)
• Button "Selecting metering": (3)

Last spurt

• Turn on the camera. Make sure that when turned on, the blue print indicator (2) blinked, this indicates the success of downloading an alternative firmware.
• Successively press: “Menu” (1) -> “Print, with blue indicator” (2) -> “Print, with blue indicator” (2) -> “Menu” (1) -> “Menu” (1)
• We see that there is a new menu item "Factory Menu". We go into it.
• Immediately after entering the new menu, press the button "Print, with a blue indicator" (2)
• Exit all the menus by double pressing the "Menu" button (1)
• Then we press successively: “Choice of measurement” (3) -> “Printing, with blue indicator” (2)

The same, but for fans of Mortal Combat or Street Fighter, in one line:
1 2 2 1 1 OK 2 1 1 3 2

After the done actions, the file "STDOUT.TXT" will appear in the root of the memory card. We find in this file the line ReleaseCount, and here it is our cherished number.



All successful flashing!

Related Links:

- original firmware from Canon version 1.1.1
- binary bootloader + documentation
- alternative firmware file testfir.fi
- program to create a bootable Cardtricks memory card (CF card size not more than 2 GB)