15,651 and counting!
September 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: That’s right, that’s the number of shutter actuations on my Nikon D90 as of this afternoon!
Hard to believe that in less than a year, I’ve taken over 15,000 pictures with that camera. Actually, on 10/28/09, I will have had the camera for one year.
D90 Image Count
Not bad, eh?
By comparison, my D70, which I bought just over four years ago (almost to the day) has a mere 8832 actuations…
D70 Image Count
I used a nifty command-line utility called “ExifTool”, which you run in Terminal on your Mac. You can download it here.
In the Nikon, you’re looking for the line item that says: Image Number.
Okay, so here’s #15,651:
Pete's Shed
Had some fun at my friend Peter’s house, his back yard is beautiful, so I took a bunch of pictures with my new lens!
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How does one figure out how to do this? You’re such a geek
I never even heard that word before . . . actuations. Did I spell it right?
“Actuations” is a fancy word for shutter clicks. I used a product called ExifTool, it runs on a Mac. You run it from Terminal – sorta like DOS from the olden days of PC’s…
Basically, it’s a command line tool that extracts all the EXIF information from your pictures, showing you tons of cool information, of which 99.9% you’d never care about.
The one I was interested in was “Image Number”, which tells you how many “clicks” you’ve made with your camera.
Cool, huh?