Canon shutter count checker
Short answer: most Canon cameras don’t store the shutter count in their photos, so no website can read it from a file. Here’s what you can do instead.
Drop an original Canon photo
JPEG or RAW (NEF, ARW, PEF, DNG, RAF) straight from the memory card. Read on this device, never uploaded.
You can also paste a copied image. Heads-up: some phone photo pickers remove location before a browser ever sees the file. If a photo you know is geotagged shows no GPS here, pick it through the Files app instead.
Use the original file
Take a fresh photo, copy it from the card to your computer or phone without opening it in an editor, and drop it here. Editors, phones’ share sheets and social networks strip the maker notes where the count lives.
Which Canon cameras are supported
Most Canon EOS DSLRs and EOS R mirrorless bodies do not write the shutter count into image files. A handful of professional bodies (EOS-1D series) store a count in a camera-specific format.
Other ways to find it
For most Canon bodies the count has to be read over a USB connection by software that talks to the camera directly, or by a Canon service centre. The FileNumber in a photo (for example 118-1861) is only the folder and file counter, which resets, so it is not a shutter count.
Rated shutter life
Canon lists shutter durability in the specifications of many bodies, for example 100,000 cycles for some enthusiast models and 400,000 to 500,000 for the EOS-1D X line. Check your model’s spec sheet.
Other brands: Nikon · Sony · Fujifilm · Pentax and Ricoh. Or see how shutter counts are stored.
Questions people ask
Can I check Canon shutter count from a photo?
For most Canon cameras, no. Canon doesn’t write the count into JPEG or CR2/CR3 files, so no website can read it from a photo. Drop a file in anyway: ExifProbe will say clearly if nothing is there.
Is the Canon file number the shutter count?
No. The file number (like 100-0234) is a folder and image counter that wraps at 9999 and can be reset. It roughly tracks usage on a camera that was never reset, but it is not reliable.
How do I find the Canon shutter count, then?
Connect the camera by USB to software that reads it from the camera’s internal memory, or ask a Canon service centre during a check-up.