![]() It cost $300 at the time, had a whopping 2.1mp sensor, and came with an 8MB (yes, megabyte!) CF card. Next came a Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart HP 315 that I got from my folks for my 21st birthday. If you remember those cameras, they actually stored pics on a 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy disk! How crazy was that?!?! In the '90s, my step mom had a Canon AE-1 that she showed me how to use, and going with her to the local photo store to pick up the developed shots was always something I looked forward to.Īs for digital, my first foray into this area was a Sony Mavica FD-90 that I used when I worked doing web design and product photos for a clothing accessories (shoes, belts, etc.) company in Florida around the year 2000. I also had an obnoxious looking, bright yellow 110 film camera back then too, but enjoyed the instant gratification of the Polaroid much more, despite how much bigger and bulkier it was. Much to their chagrin, I took tons of Polaroids of our dog, burning through those 20 picture cartridges pretty fast. I started with photography in the '80s when my parents bought me a Polaroid 600 land camera. I'm not new to this, just never really gave any thought to the shot count on a digital camera. Don't hesitate to ask here for additional help. You should really appreciate this camera and its capabilities. Your new D500 is miles ahead of that tool in respect of the many ways it can be set up for very personalized operation. If you haven't already done so, you should definitely download it from this website. It is only available in a downloaded pdf file called the Menu Guide. However, detailed information about these set up options is not contained in the hard copy User's Manual. Your new D500 accommodates a much more sophisticated level of set-up than did your D7000. Knowing that the number of shutter actuations is a different animal than the image file number that, depending on how the camera is set up, may start over at 0001 every time the memory card is reformatted is somewhat "basic knowledge" for all Nikon digital cameras. Despite having owned a D7000, it sounds like you might be kind of new at this. ![]() Welcome to the world of more sophisticated photography. It's like buying a used car that only has 300 miles on it. That's only 0.385% of the 200,000 click shutter life, and basically brand new. When I subtract the 187 shots that I've taken since getting the camera, it leaves a total of just 770 shots. Thank you very much for the link! I uploaded a file and it gave me a total shutter count of 957. Take a picture and upload it to this site to find the real count:Įven when Nikon replaces the shutter in a camera, they don't reset the counter. Some cameras, some lenses, some computers It will give you a better idea of how many times the shutter has been fired. That can only be read off the EXIF on an image. Set it to Off and it will just keep incrementing no matter what.īut there is also the shutter count. Set d7 to OFF, and file numbering will restart everytime you reformat a card, you start a new folder, or you insert a new card. I assume this was to test the camera.įile numbering sequence can be adjusted with d7. ![]() The last refurb I purchased had 7 actuations. You need to take a photo and look at the EXIF data to see how many shutter actuations the camera has. I'm just curious if it even had any photos taken with it at all or if Nikon does a "factory reset" on their refurbished bodies now. I'm certainly not complaining about my D500, because it's in absolutely pristine condition and doesn't look like it was ever handled by anyone. Does Nikon reset everything at the factory now for their refurbished cameras? I'm curious about this because when I bought my refurb D7000 from Adorama back in 2013, it was already on file number DSC_0235.NEF or something, and didn't ask me to set up anything when I first turned it on. The file number also started at DSC_0000.NEF as if it were brand new. However, when I fired up the D500 for the first time, it asked me to pick my language, set up my time zone, etc. I just bought a refurbished D500 from Adorama a couple weeks ago as an upgrade from my D7000, which was itself a refurb. ![]()
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