Determine the number of shutter releases on the Canon 400D or how much the camera took

    There are a huge number of programs on the network that promise to show the number of shutter releases on the camera. Some of them do not work at all, some of them simply do not work correctly, showing that the camera took 9 pictures in 4 years. The result is one - the Canon 400D does not penetrate any of the found utilities.

    However, a solution was nevertheless found. After 2 hours of searching and trying, the old Canon surrendered, and showed his main secret!

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    Just want to make a reservation: the path is not very simple.

    If you have doubts or the article is not very clear, it is better to go to experienced friends and ask for help. When harnessing friends, it’s better to remember that “thank you” doesn’t gurgle, doesn’t fit in your pocket and does not spread on the sandwich.

    And of course, all that you will do with the camera is done with a fully charged battery at your own peril and risk, and no one except yourself bears responsibility for “something went wrong”. By the way, before starting, read the post to the end.

    Action plan
    • check the official version of the camera firmware, and if necessary update
    • install additional small firmware into the camera, which allows you to download a binary file from a memory card
    • make the memory card bootable, load our binary onto it
    • press the sequence of buttons on the camera and voila: the cherished figure!

    For battle

    You can find out the current firmware version of the camera in the standard menu. Before entering the menu, make sure that the manual shooting settings mode is turned on (the wheel is located above, above the on / off button), for example, “P” mode. At the moment, the latest firmware for the Canon 400D is version 1.1.1 . This link also contains the necessary description with pictures, and look for the download button on the same page at the bottom.

    All steps for installing alternative firmware are described in the habratopic: “Overclocking Canon 400d to 3200 ISO” . There is nothing extraordinary about this. There you will also find a description of the work of new features that have appeared. But the method of displaying a photo counter in a topic, unfortunately, is not completely described, therefore we will describe it additionally.

    Legend
    • Menu Button: (1)
    • Button "Print, with a blue indicator": (2)
    • Button "Measurement Selection": (3)



    Last dash
    • Turn on the camera. We make sure that when you turn on the blue print indicator (2) blinks, this indicates the success of downloading alternative firmware.
    • We press: “Menu” (1) -> “Print, with a blue indicator” (2) -> “Print, with a blue indicator” (2) -> “Menu” (1) -> “Menu” (1)
    • We see that a new menu item “Factory Menu” has appeared. We go into it.
    • Immediately after entering the new menu, press the button “Print, with a blue indicator” (2)
    • Exit all the menus by double pressing the “Menu” button (1)
    • Then sequentially click: “Measurement selection” (3) -> “Print, with a blue indicator” (2)


    The same, but for fans of Mortal Combat or Street Fighter, in one line:
    1 2 2 1 1 OK 2 1 1 3 2

    After the steps have been taken, the file “STDOUT.TXT” will appear in the root of the memory card. We find the line ReleaseCount in this file, and here it is our cherished number.



    All successful flashing!

    Related links:

    - original firmware from Canon version 1.1.1
    - binary bootloader + documentation
    - alternative firmware file testfir.fi
    - program for creating a bootable Cardtricks memory card (CF card size no more than 2 GB)

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