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Hi all, New to this forum, in the hope that someone can help solve this mystery. I recently installed PIE (Picture Information Extractor) more out of interest than anything else. But one thing this shows is the shutter count as it is held in the EXIF metadata. I have had my A7II for little over a year and was surprised to see a shutter count of around 14000. I am not a professional and do take loads of images but not that much. Now I looked at a number of images taken on my holiday last year. The first image has a shutter count of 2207, the last taken 16 days later, has a count of 7535, that's 5328 shutter actuation (an average of 333/day) I also looked at the image names, the first was DCS01090, the final was DSC01758, suggesting less than 700 images taken. I tried some other EXIF software, and they all come up with the same number of actuation - It just does not seem right. Is perhaps ImageCount not quite what it seems? or am I missing something?

I am new to the forum and recently bought A7RIII. after taking a few photos and put them in the"Raw Digger" I came across these numbers. Please look at the picture. The previous owner claimed less than 10,000 shots. The line that say shutter has an extremely high number 285552826674 and another line saying 1099 shutter count. I do not know who to believe. Anyone has any idea how to accurately check how much the camera was used. Thanks