DOMA wrote:
Putting my Nikon D7100 up for sale. Having difficulty getting a shutter count. Any suggestions?
Nikon digital cameras provide shutter count by writing a metadata field in the EXIF info for every image taken, raw or jpg.
I shot a D3000, D5100 and a D7100 for years, and every image retains the shutter count in EXIF.
You can upload an image taken to a web site, or you can just look at the EXIF data with an EXIF viewer.
I myself chose to read the EXIF data myself using a tool like EXIFTOOL or plugins for Lightroom.
BTW Lightroom and other editors do not display all the EXIF data an image contains, only what the developer considers important, so a tool like EXIFTOOL or a plugin is needed to display all the data.
FWIW : Here is a section of the EXIF data available within a NIkon file.... I shot raw and converted to DNG in Lightroom then make use of Jeffery Friedl's excellent Lightroom Plugin to display metadata. Jeffery's plugin makes use of EXIFTOOL to read the EXIF data from the image file from within Lightroom.
The shutter count is circled in red.
The metadata tag name in a Nikon file is "image number", not "shutter count" anyway, so you may miss it if you are looking for the tag shutter count.
Looking on any photo site, like flicker, that displays EXIF data. Examine any Nikon taken photo with EXIF data displayed and scroll down thru the tags and you will find the shutter count displayed in most cases. Some software will remove some EXIF data when the file is exported, depending on the user settings.
If you post an image from your D7100 here, include the EXIF data ( by checking âstore originalâ ) and it should contain the image number that can be read by displaying the EXIF in a viewer, post one and I will take a look.