This is one of those things that annoys me greatly! Every time i come to sell or buy a used camera I want to know the shutter count. Its a bit like the mileage on a used car, its not a primary factor in my buying decision but it helps me understand how the camera has been used and if it matches up to the buyers description!

The digital picture did a great review of the 5D Mark III and also expected shutter usage for a number of cameras.

The problem is that Canon never provided a way to find current shutter count natively (come on Canon!), so this opened the door to developers to use the Canon SDK to write their own way to do it. Unfortunately what we have now are a multitude of blogs, articles and online sites that offer to provide this service. Some were free and now are not, some have been taken down, some point to apps that no longer work! All things considered its a bit of a pain to perform this simple task!

I had an email come in from a reader asking if I knew how to find out the shutter count for a Canon 5D Mark III. Off the top of my head I didn’t know a specific answer, but I was aware that Canon makes it tricky and it would most likely involve using some third-party software. The Canon EOS 2000D, known as the Rebel T7 in the Americas, as the Kiss X90 in Japan and as the 1500D in southeast Asia, is a 24.0 megapixels digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) made by Canon. It was announced on February 25, 2018 with a suggested retail price of US$549.99 including the EF-S 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 IS II lens. Canon tells me that the cost for a shutter replacement is approximately $400. My Monument Valley video utilized over 20,000 time lapse clicks, a large portion of my overall count. So the cost for that video was $40 assuming the shutter needs replaced at 200K. Method 1 – EOSInfo is a free software that can be installed on all Windows based PC computers and will provide the shutter count for any Canon DSLR except most 1D series bodies and it also won’t work with the original 5D and the 10D, 20D, 30D, 300D, 350D, and 400D. Licence: Free; What does EOSCount do? EOSCount shows Canon EOS DSLR camera information (serial number, owner/artist names, copyright, firmware version, camera time), allows time synchronization with a Mac, and displays optional shutter count (pay-per-use feature).

I am currently going through this process yet again and needed to determine the shutter count on my Canon 5D Mark III. After some searching and frustation i came across an app called EOSInfo.exe that did the job perfectly, however, i couldn’t find the owner and the homepage http://magic.shabgard.org no longer exists.

So, i have decided to host it here with a few basic instructions. I provide no warranty or gurantee that it will work, just that it worked for me and I quite liked it!

So, i have uploaded to my OneDrive here: EOSInfo

Instructions for use (From the Readme!)

1. Turn Off Camera
2. Connect Camera to USB Port
3. Turn ON Camera
4. Close EOS Utility if Open
5. Wait for Result
6. Turn Off Camera and Reading Result

Free Shutter Count Canon Online

Free Shutter Count Canon 80d

..and this is the screenshot from my 5D3 – dead simple!