Can someone please tell me how... M10 shutter count

[DesertHorse]

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I have owned my M10 for five years.  I've only actuated the shutter about 2000 times.  The original owner only owned it for a year and sold it to me because he had his name on the wait list for an M11.  I would really like to know the total shutter count and have found NO WAY to do it without living in Wetzlar.  Can someone please tell me how to do it?  Thanks to you in advance.

Edited July 30 by DesertHorse

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[jdlaing]

No way to tell. It would be inaccurate at best unless Leica checked it.

[pgh]

https://transienteye.com/software/
 

this is the only way outside having Leica check for you - and it’s not perfect (I believe the number of live view actuations is not included in the total, could be wrong). 
 

in any event, I have sent two m10 models to NJ for repair this year and both times I checked this software for a shutter count, and both times I requested a shutter count as part of my service. The numbers were quite similar, in the case of my m10d with no live view the total was so close the discrepancy was probably just the tech firing off some photos during the repair process. 

Edited August 1 by pgh

[mujk]

It would be interesting to know where Transient Eye gets this "Image Count" information. I would guess they read it from the newest image file, but where in the file is it located and in what format?

My first guess was the "Image Unique ID" EXIF field, because Leica has used this before. For example, M9 image files have the shutter actuation count directly in this field. But in M10 files this field contains a much longer hex string, of which I have only been able to extract the camera serial number at the beginning. The remaining 8 bytes (16 hex characters) seem to be completely random, so they are probably the result of some calculation.

The information could also be hidden in a DNG tag, but which?