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However, when this menu option is set to continuous (which is the default and which was the setting on both the used camera and the new camera I referenced) then it would make no sense for the image number to jump all over the place, depending on what was on the inserted card when the number is supposed to be continuous. There's no question that the camera can extract information from the inserted SD card if the relevant setup menu item (Frame No: continuous or renew) is set to renew then the image number is reset to 0 if a new or newly formatted SD card is detected. With all due respect I want to comment on the suggestions that the X-E1 can read the image file name on an SD and can use this to increment the internal counter. With the latter the image number is reset to 0001 after formatting or inserting a new SD card. There is an option in the menu to change this (continuous or renew). So that confirmed for me that the image # on the used camera was an accurate indicator of the shutter count. The first image number on this new camera was 0001.
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I returned the camera and purchased a new one from B & H. I confirmed that formatting the SD card I was using had no effect on this number subsequent images just incremented from the previous. When I saw the first image number (over 8000) I obviously had my doubts. I received an X-E1 from an eBay seller who indicated he had received it as a gift and had used it just a few times. I would think that Fuji must have some way of determining the shutter count, it's just not likely available to the public. I'm not at all faulting you for returning the camera, I may have done the very same thing, but the situation is ambiguous for sure. I'm not saying that is what happened and one can never be too careful about an eBay transaction, but it's not always a clear cut scenario. You receive the camera with the false image count recorded on the camera and assume that the camera had been greatly used. The gifted camera would pick up from the image count on the card. Let's say that the eBay seller really did receive it as a gift, stuck in an SD card that he had shot over 8000 images with another camera just to test it. Allow me to give you a feasible scenario.