I purchased a Canon EOS 500D DSLR in 2010 as a reward to myself for graduating from university and being employed in my first full-time graduate engineering role.
Fourteen years later, I have taken the next step to upgrading my camera technology.
However I am curious what the shutter count is on the 500D. There are websites that read the shutter count from a photo taken with the camera, however it seems that the 500D does not embed this information into the images that it takes.
So how do I get the shutter count, through the Canon EOS Utility. However the only version I can download is an updater, and when I run the updater it says that it requires the original install files. However I was not able to locate the necessary install file.
One fairly quick Google search had a solution that seemed very plausible. Add something to the Windows Registry, and the EOS Utility updater becomes a full install.
To create a new install of the EOS Utility 2.x, run the following from the the command line as an Administrator.
REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Canon\EOS Utility"Afterwards run the EOS Utility updater and it will treat the file as the original install files.