Camera for the dark: Sony Alpha 7S mileage diagnostics

Sony Alpha 7S (ILCE-7S, 2014) created a fundamentally new niche - “full-frame video for the dark.” The unique 12.2-megapixel full-frame sensor with huge pixels provided fantastic light sensitivity up to ISO 409600 in extended mode. The result is a camera that can capture images in almost complete darkness better than the human eye. This attracted a strictly specialized audience: documentarians, news videographers, astrophotographers.

Documentary videographers shoot for hours, creating a huge amount of video material. Night reports and concerts - thousands of frames per night. Astrophotographers take long series outdoors. The Alpha 7S meter can tell a rich, specialized history of use.

Dedicated video tool and shutter resource

The Alpha 7S shutter is rated for 200,000 guaranteed actuations. Video shooting (even long-term) does not increase the mechanical counter - it grows only from the photo. But active videographers often take thousands of photographs between video shoots. A camera with mileage up to 60 thousand is a great buy.

Reading data from ARW files Alpha 7S

Mileage data is stored in a MakerNotes ARW and JPEG block. For diagnostics you need the original ARW from the memory card. Our service supports Sony Alpha 7S metadata.