Picture counter?

[Matzzzy]

I had a question from a friend who has a Powershot S50.
He wanted to know whether there is a way to see how many pictures has been taken with the camera, and I didn't know what to answer.
My first reaction would be no...the only way would be to look at the filenumbers...but why wouldn't there be a way to see how many times the shutter has closed.
Does anyone know about this?
I'd like to know this about my Powershot A70 too, since the filenumbers got messed up when I borrowed another CF-card, and it jumped from 1000 pictures to about 6000 just by using another card.

.:Matz:.

[EoSD30fReAk]

unfortunatly there is no way to tell!

the file nr are the only way to kinda tell.
with digital eos the canon centre can see the shutter realease in the adjustment program but that's not possible with small compact digitals 8)

[Matzzzy]

That's what I thought too, but I just wanted to be sure.
Thanks for your reply

.:Matz:.