Originally posted by madisonphotogrl how do you find out the total shots fired on the camera? my sd card had previous images on it.
I hope I understand your question right;
Option 1: you want to know what photos on your SD card are made by your K10D and which are not?
Look at the name of the files. Your Pentax files are all named: IMGP0XXX.pef or .jpg or IMG_0XXX.dng depending on the file type selected in the menu.
Also, you can have a look at the EXIF data in the files. That will give you much more detail, like camera name, shutter speed, aperture, lens, flash, etc. etc.
Exif data can be displayed easily using many different photo type software packages, or by examining the properties of the file in Windows.
Option 2: you want to know how many photos are taken by your camera?
Not something that is easy to answer:
Since you can reset the counter used by the camera to name the files on the SD card, looking at this number is not a reliable source of knowing.
You can have a look at the shutter counter:
PhotoME - Exif, IPTC & ICC Metadata Editor , however, that is not reliable either. Since Pentax QA uses tests the camera before shipping this counter is not on zero when you unpack your camera, also, there various possibilties to release the shutter without increasing the filename counter (without taking an actual photo!):
a) Digital DOF preview when the digital option is chosen by menu, moving you on/off swich to the right,
b) double recording,
c) cleaning the sensor.
Option 3: you want to know how many times your camera's shutter was released?
Easy, download PhotoME, shoot a RAW image and examine it with PhotoME.
Hope this helps.
- Bert