Find out the number of shutter actuation to estimate the cameras value and remaining lifetime. but it's at least a 'better' idea than no info at all. To check the cameras shutter count take a photo and upload. Maybeīut that doesn't tell you if it's mechanical shutter count or total photos taken count. Mechanical shutter is the only relevant part of quoting numbers. I've read on other forums that many things are included in the image count including exposure readings and image playback/chimping. I'm not technically minded enough to understand the ifs whys and wherefores but if it is true then the 'image count' would be so wildly inaccurate as to be completely misleading. This corrects prints 1 after AFTER however, it does not actually set it to 1 in real life because when I run identify -verbose image.JPG | grep Orientation again, it is still showing 6.I'll check out a RAF file and see how the figure compares with the frame number and my estimate of my own 'blind' actuations. So I tried setting = 1 manually in my code. Since I do not want to flip the image, I tried setting the Exif property manually by taking a suggestion from this post. If the response is 1 then the image does not have Exif Orientation metadata and therefore is not flipped.

It returns 6, which means the image has the property and therefore will be flipped. So first I test my image's Exif property by doing identify -verbose image.JPG | grep Orientation After some research (see this post's explaination), it seems that if the image has Exif Orientation metadata associated with it, then that will cause applications that respect that property to rotate it. When I do Image.open in python it sometimes flips the width and height of the image.

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