Unique Image Id ??

[Alberti]

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I would like to know what the

When I look at Capture 1 and Lightroom   the EXIF of the images tells me a unique image ID.  

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000000000053F6BF5005CDCF207AF1A6   -   feb, 2022

000000000053F6BF2763EE675E4AF398   -   march , 2022  

Does this EXIF info in a JPG really tell me the number of real shots?

Is this a hex that I can convert? How? [ An online  HEX converter does not help me. ]

Edited yesterday at 03:18 PM by Alberti

[marchyman]

It looks like a UUID, albeit one that started out as a smaller pseudo random identifier then expanded to UUID size by prepending zeros.  Perhaps the Leica processor can't generate a 128 bit random so comes up with a smaller number then pads it to size.  Each ID is assumed to be unique.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

It will not tell you the number of real shots.  It's apparently intended for use by image catalogs/editors to keep track of images that may have had file name and/or metadata changed.