To get just the shutter count, if it exists, add -ShutterCount to the command.

What is the (or is there a) rename convention for Exiftool to limit itself to outputting the shutter count (or whatever 'shutter count' is called)? Or maybe not, the file I grabbed had ImageCount of 4214 and ShutterCount of 5812. It's also worth noting that there is also an ImageCount tag for some cameras, so that might be useful to extract as well. Also, as mentioned on that list, ShutterCount is 'only valid for some DSLR models'. This list is not necessarily everything that's in the file, just what Phil has decoded, and is subject to change at the whim of Sony. You can also find a list of Sony Makernotes tags that exiftool can recognize here. It looks like in the file I grabbed that the tag was simply named ShutterCount. I grabbed a random Sony ARW file from and ran exiftool -*shutter* -g1 -a -s on it (yes, you can use wildcards in tag names). In that long list of data, what is 'shutter count' called for an ARW (Sony RAW) file?

Pictures are taken when the camera is connected directly to a computer (without a flash card inside).Quote from: beachcolonist on January 15, 2017, 05:08:39 PMġ.So I want to get shutter counts from Sony ARW files and other image files.

The perceived shutter count is 2001, whereas the real shutter count is 9001.

The next picture file written by a camera like Canon 5D Mark II will be IMG_2001.JPG. This results in a much lower perceived shutter count than the true shutter count.įor example, let's say the filename is edited from IMG_9000.JPG to IMG_2000.JPG. Some cameras, such as the Canon 5D Mark II, will use the card filename to construct the name for the next picture. The file name is edited to lower the numerical suffix. If a blank flash card is inserted afterwards, some cameras like the Canon 60D will continue previous filename numbering for example, will write file IMG_4102.JPG when shutter count is 3752.The shutter count in this case will be only 3751. If a new flash card is inserted with a file IMG_4100.JPG, then the next picture taken with the camera will be written under IMG_4101.JPG.

The numbering then continues with this higher suffix.įor example, if the last file written by the camera was IMG_3750.JPG, this indicates that the shutter count is 3750.

A new flash card is inserted containing a picture file with higher numerical suffix.

Here are examples when the filename does not indicate the true number of pictures taken with the camera. Using numeric suffix of filenames written by the camera on a flash card is not equivalent to camera's shutter count (the suffix resets to 0 after 9999).

Canon 750d shutter count online