#SONY SHUTTER COUNTER HOW TO#

#SONY SHUTTER COUNTER HOW TO#

If the 'Electronic Front-Curtain Shutter” (EFCS) is set to OFF (which seems to be the default for the A77MII), the shutter will fire twice for each picture. How to Check Shutter Count for Sony Cameras Sony Digital Camera, Sony Camera, Shutter.

Besides white-balance bracketing, as Phil mentioned correctly, HDR or panoramas, there is another reason for the camera to count the shutter twice: Analyzing my photos made by both cameras, I realized the A77M2 always counted at least double the number of actual images made. In spite of the fact that it took me some time to solve the issue, I agree 'ShutterCount' makes more sense! Suddenly, my program would report 0, so I tried debug without success, until I learned changed the name of the tag to 'ShutterCount' in Version 11.25(?). Not until recently, I found out some Sony cameras log the shutter count to the maker notes for my SLT A55V and ILCA-A77MII and ExifTool reports it as 'ImageCount'. I am left to wonder how people selling A7RIIs on Ebay are able to post a shutter count number. This is pretty strong indication that 'image count' is at least something that increments with every exposure. Today I’ll show you how to check Sony Cameras shutter countIf you have an A7iii, A7riii, A7Riv, A7ii A7rii, A7sii, A6500 and most other sony cameras and th. Taking a look at the pictures in question, 387-389 are indeed the same building in a city, and then a change of scene to greenery coincides with 416.

Sony_a7r_ii_zeiss_batis_25mm_65.txt Image Count: 416 Sony_a7r_ii_zeiss_batis_25mm_64.txt Image Count: 389 Sony_a7r_ii_zeiss_batis_25mm_63.txt Image Count: 388 Sony_a7r_ii_zeiss_batis_25mm_62.txt Image Count: 387 So running each via exiftool(-a -u -g1 -w txt -k).exe then searching the txt for 'image count' we get nearly numerically ordered results: So we need to know, what is 'image count'? Some minor detective work:Ĭhecking StarGeek's page to get Sony ARW files, I took four, & can see the page gives files that have a numerical order:

Sony shutter counter