An Actuation Question?

I'm sure this is really going to sound dumb after I have been using a didgital camera for two years now but, I try very hard to avoid the technical side of things as it really boggles my mind, lol.

How does one know exactly how many actuations are on your Canon 300D? Is there an actual way of checking that?

I have been asked this question a few times and had to clam up!

You can't - short of sending it to Canon. If you've ever put the camera file numbering into auto reset, or you've swap CF cards between cameras, or if in anyway your file numbering got modified, the image numbers are no longer representative of the shutter actuation count. Canon has proprietary software that can determine this shutter count, but no software is available to determine that by the consumer.

Mark

Mark, I sure do appreciate the input pard. I wondered about it because I couldn't find a thing in the manual and a few people have asked me how many actuations are on the camera and I have no idea. I would assume somewhere around a thousand if that?

Thanks again!