<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">exiftool<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here’s an excerpt from my personal notes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">Shutter Count with ExifTool</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Fire up the shell terminal. Type “cd /” in MacOS to be in the same folder where the ExifTool executable resides. Then type:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Nikon DSLR: exiftool source_jpeg_file.jpg | find “Shutter Count”</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Canon DSLR: exiftool source_jpeg_file.jpg | find “Image Number”</li>
</ol><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Obviously, replace “source_jpeg_file.jpg” with the name of your actual JPEG file. The program should return something like this: “Shutter Count: 19889” or “Image Number: 19889” – the number to the right of the string is the total shutter count on the camera.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><b class="">In Terminal:</b></p>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">enter</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">drag and drop image into Terminal window</li>
</ol><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class="">Example:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i class="">exiftool -ShutterCount /Users/heviiguy/Pictures/Personal/June18/Post-Processed/_HVI2860\ .jpg </i></div></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 6 Feb 2019, at 11:28, Stuart T Rogers <<a href="mailto:stuart@stella-maris.org.uk" class="">stuart@stella-maris.org.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Does anyone know of a Linux utility program which can be used to display what appears to be hidden from digikam in the exif data stored by my Pentax DSLR? Specifically I am looking for the shutter count which I cannot find in what digikam shows, although online tools will show it from an uploaded jpeg.<br class=""><br class="">Stuart<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Website: <a href="https://www.stella-maris.org.uk" class="">https://www.stella-maris.org.uk</a><br class="">or: https//<a href="http://www.broadstairs.org" class="">www.broadstairs.org</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>