Number of Shutter Releases
I uploaded some of my photos to Flickr (I especially like the squared circle and Spiral Mandala groups.) Flickr lets you view the EXIF data of pictures. Browsing through this metadata, I found an item “Total Number of Shutter Releases for Camera” — Is this the total number of pictures I’ve taken so far with this camera? That’s a little bit more information than I really care to broadcast to the Internet. But then again, I’ll probably be too lazy to do anything about it.
Does anbody know if it’s possible to reset this counter? It might also be an interesting item to check when buying a used camera.
Or — imagine the counter went down, not up, and when it’s 0, you’d have to buy a new camera… Which reminds me of this idea I had as a kid: I tried to imagine living in a world where everybody could only speak a fixed number of words in their lives. After using up all of your words you’d have to stay silent until you die. People in this world would try to stockpile their words and only speak on special occasions. Saying something nice to someone you like would be a real gift because you’d have to “spend” some of your precious words!
Weird world to live in, eh? I think there’s a lesson to be learned here: Watch your metadata!