Shutter count is number of times camera’s shutter has been fired or actuated. The camera keeps on recording this number every time shutter actuates when you press the shutter button. It indicates how much camera has been used. Shutter life expectancy :- generally shutter count is rated from 50,000 to 4,00,000. After which shutter might be mechanically wear off and needs to get serviced. This wouldn’t be an issue for Digital camera’s using Electronic shutter. Electronic shutter works by turning on/off Camera’s image sensor to control exposure.
Some digital cameras / mobile phones cameras like iPhone does NOT store shutter count in EXIF Metadata. Some cameras does store shutter count inside its internal memory but doesn’t include them in EXIF Metadata recorded in photos shot on it. Camera Manufacturer might be able to get this working over firmware update or OS update incase of Mobile phone cameras.
How to view Shutter count on iPhone or iPad?
To view shutter count stored within EXIF Metadata, use any EXIF Apps from Appstore like ours “EXIF Viewer by Fluntro” that displays shutter count.
NOTE: This would work only if your Digital camera records shutter count within EXIF Metadata of Photos.
Highly recommend to try out Lite (FREE Version Trial version) first, EXIF Viewer by Fluntro Lite to double check whether your Camera records shutter count inside EXIF Metadata before downloading Paid Full version.
When you take a photo on iPhone/ iPad or Digital camera. It records location coordinates within image file, along with many other image metadata like Camera Model, Lens Model, ISO, Shutter speed, Aperture. It uses GPS Coordinates or Cellular Tower location to obtain and record this informations within Image file.
Method 1 :
View Photos location Using Apple’s Photos App for FREE.
After downloading and installing the app, open app and allow the app to access to your photos.
Select the Photo.
Location name would be displayed on bottom right corner of EXIF Card.
Tap on location name to toggle between location name and coordinates.
Location name and Location coordinates displayed within our Exif Viewer by Fluntro App
Scroll down to see location coordinates displayed on the list below.
How to view Altitude and Speed at which photo is shot?
Select desired photo after downloading “Exif Viewer by Fluntro” App from Appstore.
Scroll down to “Altitude” to see height at which photo is taken.
Scroll down to “Speed” to seespeed at which you were travelling while photo was shoot.
Use settings to toggle between imperial and metric units to switch between Feet and meter respectively.
NO LOCATION DATA? (GEO TAGGING NOT WORKING)
If you don’t see location name or coordinates, please make sure location service is turned on and is accessible to the specific camera app you are using.
Step by step process of enabling location access is explained in
If Apple’s official camera app doesn’t have location access permission, it cannot get the location coordinates. So won’t be able to geotag when camera app captures any images or videos on iPhone or iPad.
Step by Step instructions to enable or disable geotagging
Open iOS settings app
Navigate to Privacy section
Go to Location services
Go to Camera App
If you want photos to be geotagged, change Allow location access to “while using the app”. OR If you don’t want geotagging, change location access to “Never”
We are adding new “BULK EDIT EXIF” feature on version 5.0 of our EXIF Viewer by Fluntro App. You can shift dates, set dates to specific date, edit /remove location, edit other exif tags like Title, Artist name etc
In version 3.0, We are ditching hamburger menu and going to use Tab-bar. Hamburger menu is one of controversial topic in UI/UX Flow.
In our case, During user testing we discovered only 35 percent users are only discovering hamburger menu, without which 90% functionality of our app can’t be discovered :-/ . Also user will have to leave context of a screen in order to access settings from hamburger menu. Which is one of worst nightmare for our users
TabBar is best replacement UI we were able to think of. Here is how new UI Looks like with Tab bar at bottom
EXIF Viewer Version 2.x , Hamburger Menu
EXIF Viewer by Fluntro, Version 3.0
Link to our EXIF Viewer App: https://itunes.apple.com/app/exif-viewer-by-fluntro-view/id944118456?mt=8
Step 2: You can use Exif viewer by Fluntro App or its photos extension to view and remove EXIF Metadata. Open the app and navigate to photo within Exif Viewer app
Step 3: Tap on photo to view Full exif details or Flip to view quick exif details
Step 4: You can tap on remove exif metadata button to delete exif data including location gps coordinates completely.
App displays EXIF Metadata tags like ISO, Shutter Speed, Focal length, Camera Model, Time stamp, Aperture, Lens Model, Lens serial number, Shutter count etc
