Sony A5100 Shutter Count

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  • Shutter Count Sony a6000 Jan 11, 2017 1 Hello! I just received my sony a6000. I am so excited to get started and to take pictures (it is charging right now). Shutter actuations made up to file DSC0531.JPG: 299. This seems incredibly low for a used camera! It is possible that the number was reset somehow before I bought it?

This thread is a short condensed summary of all the findings and informations discovered so far w.r.t. image/shutter counter tags in the maker notes of Sony Alpha cameras.
Intentionally posted as a read only reference which will be updated in case there are any new findings. Questions or further discussion, please use the referenced threads stated below!

Image/Shutter actuation information in Sony Alpha JPG and ARW filesHow to check shutter count
Besides the 'normal'

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How to check sony a5100 shutter count information (such as shutter speed, focal length, aperture, etcetera...), the EXIF from the original image file (straight out of the cam) usually contains additional information in the so-called 'maker notes'. The number of actuations is covert and stored as three bytes of data in the maker notes. This is the case for all Sony DSLR/DSLT and NEX cameras, except the following ones: A100, A200, A300, A350 and A700.
Sony A5100 Shutter CountThe initial findings of the corresponding SonyTags for A900/A850 were discovered and published first on German mi-fo.de forum by it's member 'Hans-J.' . Based on this info Dyxum member 'Guy' was able to further identify the corresponding SonyTags used, which hold the shutter actuation data, in all the other Alpha cameras in the maker notes and also set up a small tool site - http://tools.science.si/index.php - to calculate and report back the shutter count via a script by simply uploading an unedited JPG or (c)RAW to this server.
Calculation of shutter counter from these three SonyTags is done as follows:

And here's the list of SonyTags identified so far in the maker notes of the Alphas which hold the info:

These special SonyTags and their respective data can be extracted via exiftool - for details see here.
Mind that the file, to give you the shutter actuation data, has to be unedited as most image editing software will strip out the info required from the maker notes!

Sony A5100 Camera Manual


Furthermore these counters do not correspond 1:1 to the file image number given on the memory card, but rather are higher due to the fact that shutter was actuated during tethered shooting or intelligent preview (A900/A850); some shooting functions even make multiple actuations such as sweep panorma, multi shot iso mode, hand-held twilight even though only one image is recorded in the end.
Reference:

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  • Mi-Fo forum (German) - link (-> Google translation)
  • A900/A850 with >65k shutter actuations - anyone? - link
  • The alpha shutter count tool - link