A simple tool to check Sony A7iii shutter life
Find the Shutter Count Number of your Canon EOS DSLR, Nikon, Sony cameras. How many shots your Canon DSLR has taken? Establish the value of a used camera. You want to purchase a used Canon, Nikon. Check DLSR shutter count and EXIF info (Max file size 30M) Shutter Count info exist in most Nikon, Pantax DLSR and Canon 1D series DSLR. Nikon's NEF, Pentax's DNG and PEF, Canon's CR2 raw file format are supported. To upload a photo file, click on the button below. Drag-and-drop is supported in Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi browser. Mirrorless cameras are all the rage these days. While it started with Sony, Olympus, Panasonic and Fuji, Canon and Nikon finally joined the game in late 2018. But with its popularity, there is still some confusion about the bones of a mirrorless camera. Namely, whether or not things like shutter count actually matters on mirrorless.
The easiest way to find the shutter count on the Sony A7iii camera is by using the free tool Exiftool. This command line utility works on both Windows and MacOS computers. First, download either the Windows executable or MacOS package from Phil Harvey’s website. Then follow the instruction on the site to setup the tool. Next, take a photo with your A7iii and copy it to your computer. On a Windows command prompt or a Mac terminal window, run the exiftool command and pass the name of your image to it. For example, on a windows command prompt, it will look like this:
Check Camera Shutter Count Sony
As you can see, the tool extracts information from an image file taken with the Sony A7iii. About two third of the way down, you will see a line with the keyword “Image Count”, as seen on the following screen shot:
![Check Check](/uploads/1/3/7/9/137946029/725436216.jpg)
The camera used to take this example image has a shutter count of 1392. You may have notice that there are 2 other rows with the “Image Count” keyword, and they all display the same shutter count value. To my knowledge they always show identical values. Huygens diffraction.
Any alternative and free tools?
Camera Shutter Count Software
Another free tool for checking Sony camera shutter count is picmeta. I have have seen it working on previous Sony cameras such as the A7ii and A6300. It is a Windows based visual tool and it is even easier to use than exiftool. Unfortunately it does not report shutter count for the A7iii - it displays zeros all the time.