Shutter count false reading?

[marvla]

Hi guys!

I stumbled onto what seems to be a attractive offer for used a7c, and I asked the seller for shutter count.
He responded with this image:

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After asking for unedited image, i checked on couple of well now sites, and got reading of 144 shutter counts.
Some of those websites couldn't read the image at all.

This seems to me as very low considering the camera age of year and a half.

Could you please give your thoughts on this.

Thanks!

 

Edited June 13, 2023 by marvla

[Olaf W.]

Welcome to our forum. Honestly, I don’t understand your issue. The photo shows that 5.002 pictures were taken with the camera.

[marvla]

Thanks for your answer! 

 

 Well, I thought the only reliable way to check shutter count is by uploading an unedited image to one of the dedicated websites, in order to get correct reading.

I didn't know you can check through the camera menu as well.

 

Ok, now that I got the proper number of actuations, still the mystery remains on what was the "144" number I got from shuttertool.com (uploaded image was taken yesterday, so the very recent one)

 

Edited June 13, 2023 by marvla

[thebeardedgroundsman]

I suspect that shuttertool.com took the 1Hr 44Mins as 144 actuations - Goodness knows why they did this. (I don't think I'll be using shutter tool.com) 

Strikes me that the shutter count and time used for video are very reasonable for a camera this age.

[marvla]

I tried with multiple websites, not only shuttertool, some of which couldn't read the file at all, some were giving me same result (144). I even got a shutter count like 859125045 on one of them.

[tadwil]

I use PIE from here: https://www.picmeta.com/products/picture-information-extractor.htm

[FunWithCameras]

20 hours ago, marvla said:

Hi guys!

I stumbled onto what seems to be a attractive offer for used a7c, and I asked the seller for shutter count.
He responded with this image:

Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here…

Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members!

After asking for unedited image, i checked on couple of well now sites, and got reading of 144 shutter counts.
Some of those websites couldn't read the image at all.

This seems to me as very low considering the camera age of year and a half.

Could you please give your thoughts on this.

Thanks!

 

The shutter count software does not read the numbers shown in the image - it reads the metadata attached to the image, and thus shows you the shutter count of the camera which took the image, NOT the camera shown in the image.

Check the rest of the EXIF metadata in that image - was it taken with an A7C? Maybe you have the shutter count of his new camera?