I have just installed the ML 2.3 stable on my 5D2. Before the installation the shutter count was 31XX, found by EOS info. After the installatioin, ML showed the count is 3K = 4117 +- 1074, which is about 1000 clicks more.
I checked the number by EOS info again, it showed 4117.
My understanding is that the "3K" is the total clicks, the "4117" was the physical shoots and the 1074 was the LV shoots, but the LV shoots were -1074, so weird.
Wondering how it happened.
What happens with the shutter count if you go to LiveView and back, and then restart your camera?
You probably have found a flag that has unknown meaning, and ML interprets it as sign bit.
My 5D shows 28703 + 9513.
If I open-close LV,the shutter count won't change.
However, if take picture, the counter changes.
Before
(http://fapomatic.com/uploads/20120724/86a50030c6ca84bd4b2c290437556f63/4123.GIF)
After one shoot by LV
(http://fapomatic.com/uploads/20120724/cabda0b91438cc835eda191e1c79300e/4124.GIF)
the 2 parts both change on the two sides of the "+" sign. The right part, which showed in negative value number increased by 2 for one single shoot.
Anyone minds help me with this?
+1
I also wonder how should I interpret the shutter count info on my 5D2.
mine is:
14k = 15138 + - 1348
I am guessing it means 15138 count in total of which 1348 of them are live view action.
Correct?
-kk
mine is 90k, and my camera is 1 year old... think that if i continue like this i have only some moths before remaining without shutter :\
The shutter counter in the canon DSLR seems like not quite stable.
I am not sure if the firmware 2.1.2 or the ML 2.3 has bugs, each lv shoot would count as 2.
Also the shutter count increase is not recorded into ROM right after the shoot is taken, but kept in some kind of cache until you completely switch off the camera.
I used to never switch it off, just left it in sleep mode. I felf some time when the camera woken up from sleep mode the shutter count kept in cache would be changed into some other value (may be random value or double value), until the time the camera was switchd off and wrote the incorrect value into ROM.
A LV shot is counted as a picture plus a LV actuation (listen to the shutter sound).
ML only displays what it finds there.