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Actuations & Shutter Count, not really DSLR users realized this especially beginner until you want to sell  your camera. I am sure the  buyer will ask you how many actuations your camera has on it’s meter. Actuations (or shutter count) is the amount of photos your camera has taken. This is very important number, it give you an idea about your camera life expectancy.



Camera is just like your car, it will die one day. Since I am using Nikon D60, so I google around the web and found out below average reference number.

Average number of actuations after which shutter died: 99,368. Is around 100K.

How to get the Shuttle Count?

For each image taken, there will be a lot of information capture on the EXIF, including the shuttle count.
So how to exact this information, what's you need is download a program know as OPANDA IEXIF.

Ok, let's use the CUTIE PANDA to check my shuttle count.
Just browse to your latest image from your camera, then scroll down to locate  the "Total Number of Shutter Releases for Camera". I got 27,837 for mine.

You might wonder why I suddenly do such research. This is because recently my camera got error that my shuttle not working, it prompt me "Error press shutter release button again", so this hint me my D60 is getting old already. Get it fixed by shaking on the bottom of the camera, seem the wheel stuck. If you want to know how to solved this, click here . But try at your own risk. I didn't try that cause wasn't able to open one of the screw, but did try to shake and continuous press the shuttle.

In conclusion, if you know your car can drive 100,000 KM, will you drive 100 KM per day?
After this research, I will not simply press my shuttle from now on :).