But then again I constantly see people on the internet asking makers of software like this to 'update to support my camera when?', and nobody ever seems to tell them 'Never.'.

To me this sounds more like those cameras simply don't come with it. So this leaves me wondering, did Canon simply drop this property? I don't really see why gphoto2 would support those cameras and a ton of properties, except for the shuttercounter. And this gets me thinking, is this really a software issue? As in, the software we use to read.īecause both of those cameras connect just fine to gphoto2, and when I run gphoto2 -list-config I get a HUGE list with all kinds of configuration entires that I can read out, but no shuttercounter property there. Now recently I got hands on a 750D and a 760D, and neither have this property. What I do is basically run the following command: gphoto2 -get-config /main/status/shuttercounterĪnd that works for a lot of, especially older, Canon cameras.

Whenever I get a Canon camera in my hands, I read out its shuttercount using gphoto2 on Linux. So, I just saw this question and it got me thinking of something I stumbled upon recently.