Lots of Windows & Mac talk
There’s an apparent uprising to the fact there is no Mac version to the software! Planet5D says they have a 50/50 split between Windows and Mac users visiting their site. So here are my stats.
Canon Rumors Operating System Split (July 1, 2009 – July 31, 2009)
Windows 66.64%
MacOS 31.38%
Linux 1.78%
The Rest 0.2%
The maker of the software has done so for free and made it available to the world. I can understand time constraints with other things in life. Perhaps someone can contact the maker of the software and bring the world a Mac version!
A Most Useful Utility (For Windows Only)
This utility will find your shutter actuation if own a DIGIC III or IV EOS camera. It will NOT read the actuation of any 1D/1Ds series camera.
Download Here: http://blog.planet5d.com/548
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Hmm.
Basicly a new version of “40D Shutter count”
Thanks!
I’ve used the predecessor which was called 40
d shutter count, and verified it was accurate on my 40D and 5D MK II. It does not work with cameras prior to Digic III.
The original was a little clunky to install, since you had to unpack it, and move the executable file to the Canon EOS Utility folder.
So, I removed the old one and installed the EOS Info. It installed fine and works great as well.
It pulled the:
Camera model
Serial Number
Firmware Version
Owner
Copyright
Shutter Count
Date / time
From my 5D MK II.
Thank you very much for this post, very useful and interesting application.
And thanks to Mitch from planet5d too :)
windows only…. bah! Phooey.
The Bund – serves you right for buying a Mac. It never ceases to amaze me how often I see software developers slagged off for not catering to the Mac minority. Yet, I never see Apple computers marked down for this exact scenario.
Lesson to learn: don’t buy a Mac unless you’re prepared to do without from time to time.
Mac owns. Sorry, had to say it :D
Seriously, if you need Windows programs on a Mac, just run it through Boot Camp or something like VMware Fusion.
anyone know of a utility that will work with a digic II, I have a 30D.
Thanks.
can someone explain what this is exactly? I have no clue. thanks
You must not own a Mac. I don’t mean to pick a fight or anything MAN this computer just works. I’m the first guy in line for products that just work…
Macs aren’t the same minority for creatives (like photographers) as they might be for the wider population.
Strange coincidence that the author can’t bother to update 40DShutterCount for Macs “due to time constraints”; that’s the exact same reason I can’t be bothered to donate to his project. What’re the odds? ;-)
40D Shutter count works fine on mac.
It’s the rare times like this that I keep a PC for. :P
Windows good only for Office App. Mac is for all Ram-Consume App.
Try 2 GB on PSD file and see how bad it is on Windows.
40,000 on my 40D lol
thinking i was near 15,000
macs are for nikon people
your not in nearly as hot water as me 72331 on my 40d there goes 250 dollers when my shutter goes out in like 4 months (i used 6.5 fps alot)
macs are not better then windows
mac=nikon
windows=canon
mac=nikon
windows=canon
how do you figure?
Well that answers that question!! Come on program designers not all of us are sheep enough to just follow the crowd and buy cheap pc’s Some of us like a computer that simply works without any fuss thus saving us time and money. Especially those of us in the imaging world.
Just checked my refurbished Canon I recently bought. Including my pictures the shutter count is a lovely 525. :-)
Linux = WIN!
well i love windows and canon and i dont like nikon or mac and most people i know in my personal life who use macs shoot nikons…. flawed logic or no logic at all its your call
Mouaaaa Mac Users Pwnd :D
yeah pcs are the greatestest!!1one
once you shut all the error messages and send all you personal information to microsoft, you can nicely work on your pictures!
err… i think we’re getting out of focus :)
ok you win your right i am wrong hhaha
i have never had such problems
No Seriously, at my house, I have a HP stuff with win on it and my girlfriend being a mac fan owns an imac 20″ 2.4Ghz, 320 HD and 2 gigs of memory. Each time I try something on her mac, the icon in the dock takes a year before launching. I’ve never saw something that slow.
I click on the icon, it jumps (lol) then a year later, the application finally comes in! Sometimes it goes as “kernel panic”.. One another important thing i’ve noticed is that on windows, when an application has trouble, you have a message saying there is a problem and then you can continue to work or save what you just did before. On an imac, you can’t because it crashes instantantly..
For info i’m 27 and don’t care about which one of win or mac is “da best os ever” not a win fan boy comment, but i really have to say i always laugh when my girlfriend complaints about her mac, but she doesn’t care, mac is beautiful and it’s sooo cool… :D
The problem is that Most of the Mac lovers are simply snobs who don’t really understand computers. Most of them are creative people who saw macs at other creative people, whose like to be fancy and whose also did not understand computers well. Mac looks fancy.
They don’t understand that the time when Macs were better for graphics and multimedia are far over. Only the myth what is stayed with us.
Vista was not that good, that is true, but try 7.
And btw, I had no windows crash since 10 years, though I am using windows every day for editing and creating photos, video, music…
Me too. As much as I hate to have to say it, I use Windows XP Pro at work and it very, very rarely gives me a BSOD. Maybe once every year or two.
I can’t knock Windows for stability, but I just don’t like it as an OS. At home, I use Linux exclusively.
What a stupid comment. One product does not go hand in hand with the other I sure plenty Canon owners have macs, Macs are much better for graphics work so it would make sense for a photographer no matter what camera they choose to use a mac.
Does this work with a 5D mk I?
Checked my 40D it was at 20,005. Clicked the shutter once more it read 20,006. Really accurate. :D
I guess I would need more discipline in shooting. :)
I agree with you on this one. I see more and more mac users who are installing Win7 on their Macs. :)
No. I says so on the web site. :)
That’s exactly what I always thought. One more thing, I have more crashes in a month on her mac than the last 5 years on my PC, and i’m not kidding.
For info, when I was in San Francisco in 2003, i’ve bought at CompUSA a new and shiny powerbook with Mac OS X 10.2 i think because they were using apple computers at the school I was.
Well, I’ve sold it like 8 months later because i’ve had at the time so many trouble with it that I could’nt work 3 hours without a crash. And I prefer not to talk about the powerful rises of the heat of my powerbook, I would have been able to cook an egg over it… And what’s fun is that 6 years later, the problem still alive, take a look at some mac forum about the new model of powerbooks.
Anyway, since that time, I’ve never used a Mac again since my girfriend got one. Mac OS 10.5.7 seems better but slow as hell with 2 gigs (apple memory prices will cost you your 2 arms and maybe one leg), and I don’t get the combination of the keys, for some symbols, you need to press 5 or 6 keys at the same time.
A last word, what don’t they give to their customers the choice of a mat screen? I hate miror screens like on the imac, wherever you are in the room, you always have a light reflecting on you and then on the screen.
Mac Vs PC.
If you gotta ask you ain’t never gonna know.
Leave the PC users in peace, they have virus updates to download and install.
Thanks for the post and the nice words in the comments!
just to chime in on the ‘debate’ about nikon/canon & pc/mac – 47.6% of the visitors to planet5D (note this is a CANON camera) are mac visitors… and 47.2% are PC (the rest are a mix of unix/linux) so the claim that Canon = PC is clearly not true… it is almost exactly half for each
and considering that the PC clearly has the vast majority of the market, it is significant that nearly 50% of my traffic comes from macs.
Oh, and in case anyone thinks my stats might be questionable… I’ve had over 250,000 visitors since Jan 1 to base those stats on.
Do those same people in your personal life enjoy your idiotic generalizations?
So I dusted off a Windows XP box, in order to see what the fuss is about. This is the issue: “Installing .NET Borg Framework 3.5 SP1”, now I get a “Setup must reboot before proceeding”.
*THIS* is what Windows developers and users don’t “get”. I shouldn’t have to reboot just to install or run your sillyassed little camera utility. And yet that seems perfectly normal if you’ve been conditioned to it for long enough.
More thoughts after the restart, since the developer couldn’t be bothered to post a screenshot or two of his app.
It gets better. Not only does the developer insist on installing the latest (I’m assuming this is the latest) .NET Borg Framework, it uses the RunOnce registry hack to restart the installation after the reboot. (BTW, this is the backdoor that is how a fair amount of spyware gets installed on your home computer when you kid plays some Flash or Macromedia game on some website.)
After all that, it finally gives you an “Installation Complete” dialog to tell you “EOSInfo has been successfully installed. Click Close to exit”. It doesn’t even offer to run the program.
Then the Borg Framework automatically installs a Firefox “helper” add-on for the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant without your permission (that you can disable but not uninstall). This tracks which .NET Framework you have installed (including older versions) and reports this back to whatever website you may be browsing. You know, in case you wanted some other website to be able to install some backdoor malware using an unpublished Microsoft vulnerability.
And at the end of this nonsense, when you run the applicaion you find its a tiny one-window program that outputs a bunch of text, and didn’t need any of the .NET Framework crap in the first place! Any first year programmer could write a program to do what this guy did, he just insisted on using all the Visual Studio garbage for no reason. LOL! What a maroon!
Darren, you’re doing fine without the software. As you mentioned, you are not sheep enough to follow the crowd. Make your point! Don’t follow the crowd wanting this.
(just joking) I couldn’t resist!)
It is my experience that the selection of Mac over PC, while related to photogrpahy is not related to brand of camera equipment. Every professional photogrpaher I know uses Macs. Most of the the amatueurs or semi-professionals I know also use Macs, or are looking to purchase one.
Macs are not 100% better than windows, however for photo requirements Mac has an edge on PC, particularly in the area of laptops, due to their more efficient use of available hardware, (with a PC it is possible to simple throw in ridiculous amounts of RAM and processors and raid HDD arrays to up speed etc without as much cost.
I currently own a PC, and have had a wide variety of issues with it, both hardware and software related.
My next computer will either be a custom windows 7 desktop or a mac laptop. (I’m currently debating computing power over the ability to use my laptop in the field)
Have you tried it with a Windows emulator on your Mac? I’m sure some would like to know if it works.
It just installed quickly and easily on my Windows Vista box. No restarting or the like. I already have the Microsoft.net framework installed, since it is required for many pieces of software. With Windows 7, it is installed as part of the operating system.
Hey Darren why don’t you learn how to build and how to use an expensive powerhouse PC? Nobody is saying you have to use this software on a cheap HP box from Best Buy built for old folks to play poker online. Go to the PC gaming or modding forums and call them sheep – they might teach you a thing ot two.
A statistic on websites like Canon.com or Canonrumors for example would be 1000 times more accurate. :)
Check the post update.
oh.
I am running Linux on a PC, and dont get virus.
Thanks! the ideal application for those who want to sell their Canon system on eBay :)
CR traffic report:
Windows 66.64%
MacOS 31.38%
Market share:
Windows 88%
MacOS 9%
i feel the ship starting to lean
Sorry – I made a mistake on my last post – I was looking at adsense clicks for google… my overall google stats are:
Mac – 50.89%
Windows – 45.75%
iPhone – 1.59%
Linux – 1.3%
I find it funny that the iPhone is beating out linux :)
my previously quoted stats were from a tool called Woopra
There are a lot of “switchers” who are technically proficient that appreciate the technical underpinnings of BSD Unix and a system where aesthetics included as a part of the process. The quote goes something like, “Design isn’t how it looks, design is how it works.”
Something as simple as looking for a file. Mac: Command-Space bar, type in what you’re looking for, and its there instantaneously. Windows: Open Explorer, right click a folder, click Search, type your search phrase, tell it what kind of thing to search on (filename, phrase in a file, etc.), where it might be, hit the Search button and let it crank through your hard drive. Sheesh!
God knows what Max did to screw up his GFs iMac, she probably just needs a new boyfriend. ;-) j/k (sorta)
That’s just because I read CR at work. ;-)
Website stats for OSes is silly. All it means is that you attract more of one kind of user. I work for a 3D rendering company and we attract more Windows users because more 3D users uses PCs.
I like both, but I would think Canon has a better indication if they need Mac products. (Or they just do not want to develop for Mac…) This is why SDKs are awesome; if you do not want to develope for a particular niche, then let the community fill the gap.
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lol, press f3 on win, there is the search.
on win 7 or vista you don’t have to select or set anything.
It is difficult to argue if one do not know what he is talkin’ about ;)
Lol, and you still think Mac OS X don’t get any virus or spyware like in 2000 (because 10 ppl on earth were using mac os) even if we are in 2009?
You really think you are safe because you are running Mac OS X?
come on, don’t be so innoncent, you make me laugh ;)
That’s what I called “URBAN LEGEND” :)
Kaspersky gives me a virus alert with the file:
“Trojan.Downloader.Win32.Agent.Cley”
You are advised, download it at your own risk.
Here you can check out a screen print of the alert:
http://i28.tinypic.com/6ds2fq.jpg
Take care!
Got that one, too. Also Kaspersky…
Yeah, Kaspersky definitely doesn’t like it. If the author is posting here, can we please have an explanation?
Yeah, the MacOSX keylogger still has some bugs, so for now I’m making available the Windows version only, sorry for the inconvenience.
i was rightt i knew it
i am curius what the specs are for nikon rumors page?
would macs be the majority?
if they are i am really good at makeing “ideotic generalizations” pardon my spelling
check the site os percentage looks like i am correct to certin extend.
um no. If you figure the market share against the CR traffic then you get a 3 to 1 ratio in favor of Mac. But what do I know I buy computers because they are shiny, trendy, and have cool commercials.
By the way I accidently started this age old feud on this thread. I didn’t mean to I promise. But as long as it’s going… Mac Mac Mac.
sorry had to.
the age of the personal computer is a fairly recent one but yes i cannot possibly win this arguement
but its fun to arguee
Thanks for your info. This blog is very useful.
Didnt your mother tell you not to tell lies ?
Sorry, I’ve been too busy emptying all your bank accounts.
I wasn’t posting here, but noticed this article in my RSS reader, plus someone alerted me to the Kaspersky thing. I run multiple malware/virus packages, and haven’t been alerted to anything.
I just scanned the installer locally again, and didn’t find anything, so I ran it against jotti, virustotal, and virscan.org, and Kasperski is the only one barking (surprise!) on jotti, virusttotal scored 3/41, and 3/38 on virSCAN.
I’ll pull it until I can figure out why it’s triggering Kaspersky – those numbers make me think it’s a false alarm, but hey – it’s a .net app wrapped in an .msi, then built into a self-extracting archive – what could go wrong?
Oh, and for all you Mac users – there’s not a Mac version of EOSInfo because I wrote the Mac version of 40DSC with an installer in the first place, so all the files are isolated and it still works just fine – IOTW, you don’t need a new utility. If it makes you feel better, I’ll just repackage 40DSC with the new name.
The PC version of 40DSC is (or can be) broken due to some .dll updates from Canon – it was just easier for me to write a whole new app.
David
One should not own a Mac ? One should not own a disease ! That’s why i dont own a pc. Never will ! P.S ; dont forget to do your daily virus-check, sprocket-count, dll-lists, drive-rupdates, DOS-commandlists and pay your monthly service-pack bills.
When will the test-errrr-consumerversion of Win 7 appear ? Shouldnt Win 2000 and Win NT have changed the world ? Where did your originality and your taste leave you ? Before or after DOS ?
Yep, I’m a maroon. Where’s the version you wrote and give away?
Ok, thanks. Do you think it is possible to have a direct print button available on the utility interface, I usually like to direct print immediately after I see the shutter count incrementing by one, cheers.
Anyone have another link to the software. He took it offline because of the Kaspersky hit. Kaspersky AV is very touchy though, it doesn’t like a lot of legitimate software. I have had several issues with Kaspersky on some software packages and ended up having to give Kaspersky the boot and went to something that gave less false positives.
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My windows XP and 7 never crash… on my MacBook pro. Lolz
Btw I’m a dotnet developer who owns a mac and a canon slr. So please, don’t generalize!