How to find the number of shutter actuations on a Nikon D3?

I have a manual and refer to it often. I have spent enough time looking through the manual so I thought it would be easier to ask here.

Open a photo taken (at any time) by your D3 in Adobe bridge (photoshop should work as well).In bridge, right click and view the full metadata of the file. I forget where exactly to look, but under one of those many drop down folders of data (near the bottom, i think) will be a list, in the list will be the number of shutter actuations of your camera. Google how to look up shutter actuations on any (nikon) camera, and you can probably get better detailed instructions.

Take a recent picture, jpg will do, open in an exif viewer such as opanda.

Take a picture. Copy it to your computer. Open it with a graphics program that can display the EXIF data. If you don't have one, get the freely downloadable Irfanview. The EXIF data can be seen under Image-Information.

All that is true if the data is available to the consumer - some cameras shutter counts are not.
I have a Canon 1000D, for example. I contacted Canon and was told the data could only be read by
a tech. Reason? Go figure.