Author Topic: Checking shutter count of your PEN (Read 13294 times)

exzrael · « **Reply #25 on:** April 22, 2011, 10:12:05 PM »

Awesome tip! I have only taken 1562 photos with my E-PL1

zebraman · « **Reply #26 on:** May 16, 2011, 05:19:24 AM »

...and my pen e-pl1 2643 ! I bought my camera 10/09/2010
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is this pen e-pl1 have a mechanical shutter or electronic ? is this camera shutter count very important ?

adash · « **Reply #27 on:** May 16, 2011, 07:04:58 AM »

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is this pen e-pl1 have a mechanical shutter or electronic ?

I believe they all have mechanical shutters.

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is this camera shutter count very important ?

Not so important before it reaches 100'000.

Em5 Pete · « **Reply #28 on:** May 16, 2011, 07:44:23 AM »

These cameras are made for 30-50k shutters, where as more top end camera's are made for 100k shutters...

If you take 500 pictures a week at 52 weeks....that's 26k a year, so your good a 2-3 years at least...by then you'll buy a newer model.

rparmar · « **Reply #29 on:** June 04, 2011, 09:51:54 AM »

Thanks for this info. Worked just fine on my E-P1 with latest firmware.

maximusmaximus · « **Reply #30 on:** June 04, 2011, 12:14:53 PM »

kewl tip here's what i got:
R: 017421

Aron · « **Reply #31 on:** June 04, 2011, 01:40:50 PM »

I've got 2,240 in 3 months!

voyager · « **Reply #32 on:** June 04, 2011, 03:37:48 PM »

Quote from: rparmar on June 04, 2011, 09:51:54 AM

Thanks for this info. Worked just fine on my E-P1 with latest firmware.

Well, how many did you have?

rparmar · « **Reply #33 on:** June 04, 2011, 06:44:14 PM »

Quote from: voyager on June 04, 2011, 03:37:48 PM

Well, how many did you have?

I had 3311 which was put on there by the first owner. Only had the camera for two days and maybe 100 shots before I checked.

laar307 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 05, 2011, 07:24:27 AM »

Works also on P1

lorenski · « **Reply #35 on:** June 09, 2011, 11:33:16 AM »

Quote from: ghosthunter on February 12, 2011, 01:55:16 AM

WOW! thanks for the info, very helpful. My E-P1 was bought used and i have just found out that it has 628 shutter actuation which is nothing! Whoop whoop!

This is a good thing to know when buying a used Olympus. I got 13,300...at this rate it won't last 3 or 4 years.

tadeobiologo · « **Reply #36 on:** July 21, 2011, 09:36:28 PM »

Now that´s an interesting thing i found out today!
these steps work also for the T8010 and the T6020 tough cameras! and you get the shutter count and the number of flash firings.
i also tried it on the other compacts: VR320, Fe4020 and the SP600 camera and it seems to work with some variation. i was able to set the black screen but the next code didn´t worked.

does anyone knows any other funny trick like this one?

i wander if tough cameras also get a register of how many times have been dropped too hidden somewhere

?

Jason C · « **Reply #37 on:** October 18, 2011, 06:58:02 PM »

Almost at 4K...

Jason C

voyager · « **Reply #38 on:** October 19, 2011, 12:49:31 AM »

I still have yet to get this to work.

RSilva · « **Reply #39 on:** November 04, 2011, 03:05:24 AM »

10363 photos in one year. That's almost 30 photos per day!

voyager · « **Reply #40 on:** November 05, 2011, 11:30:47 PM »

Nicely done!

optix · « **Reply #41 on:** January 19, 2012, 05:17:45 AM »

This works on my e-p3 - shutter count is 2120

f64 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 20, 2012, 11:42:34 AM »

I just got my e-p3 repaired

, and I noticed something that could affect the shutter count of a Pen. This note was on the repair status from Olympus:

"Replaced lcdChecked all function and cleanedFirmware has been updated to the latest version as a result the Picture count has been reset to original factory setting of zero.Picture count will resume upon use. "

Anyone know what they mean by "Picture count"?
If "Picture count" means shutter count, then it appears that a repaired Pen could potentially have it's shutter count reset to zero! Not a big problem really, but it would be something to consider when buying a used Pen.

voyager · « **Reply #43 on:** January 20, 2012, 04:33:17 PM »

I don't see why they would do that.

f64 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 20, 2012, 06:07:32 PM »

I don't know why they would do that either. I sent an email to Olympus asking about their repair policies.
I guess I got the new firmware v1.2, but don't see why that would reset anything. Will know more when I get the camera back next week.

f64 · « **Reply #45 on:** January 26, 2012, 11:42:14 AM »

Update on camera repair and "picture count".

I got my e-p3 back from Olympus after having the lcd screen replaced.. Here's the story:

1- My firmware was updated to v1.2.
2- The camera was reset to factory settings. Yep just like getting a new camera. Gotta go through the settings up all over again!
3- The shutter count was NOT affected.
4- The service note from Olympus that the "picture count has been reset to ...zero", refers to the file numbers that are used to sequentially number filenames ( even if you use a new memory card) when you use the Auto setting of the File Name option.

Now everything makes sense.

adash · « **Reply #46 on:** January 26, 2012, 11:44:52 AM »

It actually makes sense to reset the shutter count if the shutter is replaced.

voyager · « **Reply #47 on:** January 26, 2012, 04:16:32 PM »

Ah, yes I've had that happen before.

kulardenu · « **Reply #48 on:** February 07, 2012, 06:47:46 PM »

Thanx! I had a whopping 71 on mine.

voyager · « **Reply #49 on:** February 08, 2012, 12:43:50 AM »

How'd you manage that?

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