sweetal wrote:
Pretty accurate as EOSInfo confirmed the shutter count on the 5DII. One last bit of weirdness, I thought I saw some people were able to pull down the shutter counts for their 1DIV. Whenever I tried it, I kept getting a segmentation fault and a core dump. Couldn't even "list-config" and on "auto-detect" would only find a PTP Camera instead of recognizing the model. Anyone else get this? Any help would be appreciated.
Alan
It worked for me on the 1D IV, although not the first time. It turned out that, since I had my iPhone charging on the computer at the time, gphoto was finding that first and --list-config requests were coming back empty. Could there be some other PTP device connected to the machine?
Nope, disconnected the 1DIV and "auto-detect" didn't find anything, reconnected and found the PTP camera, so it should be the only camera gphoto is detecting.
coranda wrote:
It worked for me on the 1D IV, although not the first time. It turned out that, since I had my iPhone charging on the computer at the time, gphoto was finding that first and --list-config requests were coming back empty. Could there be some other PTP device connected to the machine?
I normally use ubuntu (which I find it more flexible than MacOS or Windows).
gphoto2 seems to be reliable since I keep a record of the no of photos taken with my DSLRs.
it shows 59128 for the KissX2(450D) and 1478 for the 60D.
(the camera is mounted automatically when it is connected to the computer; when using gphoto2 first umount the camera then type gphoto2 --get-config /main/status/shuttercounter)
sweetal wrote:
Nope, disconnected the 1DIV and "auto-detect" didn't find anything, reconnected and found the PTP camera, so it should be the only camera gphoto is detecting.
And you did a "killall PTPCamera" before running gphoto to make sure nothing else had grabbed the camera first?
skibum5 wrote:
have you tried swapping around different batteries and CF cards used in other bodies of the same model without reformat and stuff?
No, but when I tried it on a days old 1D IV it gave a shutter count that was 7 more than the number of pictures I had on file. I checked it again a few weeks later and the shutter count, then around 1100, was still exactly 7 more than the number of pictures on file.
When I look at the Ubuntu installation instructions, there should have been a step where you set up a user login and password, right after selecting keyboard configuration. Can you not log in with that password?
Alan
Hey Alan,
I don't remember seeing any instruction to create a login ID/password. I could've missed.
I tried to re-install Ubuntu by booting from the CD, not successful. Removed thhe whole directory from HD, still not able to re-install this.
Any suggestion? This had taken most of my morning.
There are Ubuntu support forums where you will probably get a lot better feedback. I've usually found the people there pretty friendly and helpful. Check the ubuntu main page.
dwweiche wrote:
There are Ubuntu support forums where you will probably get a lot better feedback. I've usually found the people there pretty friendly and helpful. Check the ubuntu main page.
I can't get to that main page!
Ubuntu ask me to login with password, which I don't have.
So the only computer you have access to right now is the one on which you installed Ubuntu? I thought you were booting off the CD. If so, just take the CD out, boot into Windows, and go visit the forums to read about your problem.
Sorry, but this is a Canon Gear forum. You really need to take this to a Linux support forum. There are lots of them out there.
sweetal wrote:
Thanks to jp129, followed the instructions pretty much to the letter and worked like a charm. Burned a CD for now to test, will probably create a bootable USB with persistence for future ease of use and faster access.
Weird thing is, gtkam never did work for me, never found any of my cameras. Luckily, gphoto2 command line worked fine and was able to pull down the shutter counts:
7D: 7147
5DII: 17238
Pretty accurate as EOSInfo confirmed the shutter count on the 5DII. One last bit of weirdness, I thought I saw some people were able to pull down the shutter counts for their 1DIV. Whenever I tried it, I kept getting a segmentation fault and a core dump. Couldn't even "list-config" and on "auto-detect" would only find a PTP Camera instead of recognizing the model. Anyone else get this? Any help would be appreciated.
Finally able to re-install Ubuntu, booted from it and followed instruction.
The shutter count on my 5DII is 640, which is about right, and the new(to me) 7D at 5932.
Thanks for everyone's input.
Worked quite well for me and the numbers from my two Canon 7D "seem" to be about right - I did the following.
Boot Ubuntu 11.04 from ISO image on CD
Enable Universe in software center
sudo apt-get install gphoto2
gphoto2 --list-config
gphoto2 --get-config /main/status/shuttercounter
Information on how it can be done is posted in that thread.
Quoted from solara:
"Okay I finally got it to work. Here are the steps in case someone else wants to get their shutter actuations without having to learn too much about Linux.
2- Burn the ISO image to a CD (you can install to your hard drive after booting from the Ubuntu CD), or make a bootable USB drive like I did for faster boot-up times. I created the bootable USB drive using Universal USB Installer: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/univers...easy-as-1-2-3/
Note that the Universal USB Installer has an option to create a Persistence file. This enables any changes/programs you make to the Ubuntu environment to persist after a reboot. Otherwise, any programs you install (gphoto2, etc.) will disappear after rebooting the USB drive (like booting from the CD as well). I actually tried to create a Persistence file but for some reason Ubuntu wouldn't completely load up for me ... that's a problem for another day.
3- Download the following .DEV files (basically Ubuntu installation files): libexif-gtk5 and gtkam. GTKAM is the graphical user interface for libgphoto, and gphoto2 is the commandline version.
Once you've booted into Ubuntu, open up a file manager (just double-click on one of the drive icons on the Ubuntu desktop) and navigate to the drive where you've downloaded those two .dev files and double-click on them. This will launch Ubuntu Software Center and you can then install them (libexif-gtk5 first, and then gtkam).
And that's it. You actually don't have to install gphoto2 for gtkam to work (and the core files libgphoto2 are already a part of the Ubuntu 10.10 package - though it's an older version). Plug in your camera to the USB port, then unmount it (there's a button for that command on the pop-up window that will appear when you plug in the camera). Launch gtkam (it's under Applications > Graphics on the pull-down menu), scan for your camera if it doesn't appear automatically, and right click on it and choose 'View Camera Preferences'.
If you want the latest gphoto2 and libgphoto2, you can download the respective .dev files from the same ubuntu site I listed above (I used all the Natty versions). Note that you will also need to download libcdk5.dev for gphoto2 to install, and libgphoto2 requires libgphoto2-port0.dev and libjpeg62.dev.
So coming from a Windows background, I found using .DEV files the easiest way to install these programs in Ubuntu."...Show more →
I wish there was a simpler method to verifying the shutter count!
