Canon Ae 1 Serial Number Years

Canon Ae 1 Serial Number Years

Canon Date Codes Because they are chronological, serial numbers usually do tell the approximate age of a Canon SLR or SLR lens, but Canon Inc. Has never put out any sort of public information about serial numbers.

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However, the is another way to get the information about a camera body or lens. For cameras, look inside the body's film chamber for an alphanumeric code printed in black ink on the black surface of the film chamber. You may have to hold the camera under a strong light to see it. What you'll see is a date code, possibly something like 'U1140F.' The first letter tells the year the camera was manufactured: in this case, 1980. It's an alphabetic code; A = 1960, B = 1961.T = 1979, U = 1980, and so on up to Z = 1985.

4 - Wikipedia. 4 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high- speed communications and isochronous real- time data transfer. Over 19 years on the internet. Canon AE-1 came out in 1976 and is a manual and shutter priority camera. Write down your serial number.

The next 2 numbers tell you what month the camera was made, in this example, November. (the leading zero for the month code is sometimes omitted, so an A-1 with a code of 'Y362' would have been manufactured in March, 1984, for instance.) The following 2 numbers are an internal code that is irrelevant for determining age, but year and month is close enough anyway, IMO. (This internal code is also occasionally omitted based on reports from Canon owners.) The last letter stands for the name of the factory. In this case, 'F' stands for Fukushima which was the main Canon SLR factory for about 20 years from the early 70s until 1991. (The factory code is rarely omitted, if ever.) So a body with the Code 'U1140F' was made in November of 1980 at the Fukushima factory. Starting in 1986, the year code was restarted with 'A' again, but the factory code was placed before it.

Now that Canon SLRs are no longer manufactured at Fukushima, you're more likely to see a code starting with 'O' for Oita. So, for SLRs manufactured in 1994, you might see a code starting with 'OI' followed by the month code. Letter Year A 1986, 1960 B 1987, 1961 C 1988, 1962 D 1989, 1963 E 1990, 1964 F 1991, 1965 G 1992, 1966 H 1993, 1967 I 1994, 1968 J 1995, 1969 K 1996, 1970 L 1997, 1971 M 1998, 1972 N 1999, 1973 O 2000, 1974 P 2001, 1975 Q 2002, 1976 R 2003, 1977 S 2004, 1978 T 2005, 1979 U 2006, 1980 V 2007, 1981 W 2008, 1982 X 2009, 1983 Y 2010, 1984 Z 2011, 1985 The same type of code is printed on the back of many (but not all) EF lenses as well, typically in small white characters on a black baffle in the rear lens mount. Normally it will read somethings like 'UT0308'.

The 'U' is the factory, the 'T' is the year of manufacture (2005), the '03' is the month (March) and the final two numbers seem to be some sort of internal Canon code. Prior to 1986 the lens date codes did not include the factory letter. © Copyright Bob Atkins All Rights Reserved.

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Ok, I know how to find 'when' a particular Canon camera was produced (inside code in film chamber) but I would like to how many were produced; specifically the A-1, the AE-1 and AE-1 Program. Researching tonight, these are my educated guesses: 2,430,000 A-1s produced from April of 1978 to 1985 5,730,000 AE-1s produced from 1976 to 1984 AE-1 Program, nothing found to indicate production numbers. I'm not saying any of these numbers are right. And for all we know there is no definitive production list.

This discussion all started over a cup of coffee, looking at friends cameras and probably having too much time on our hands at the moment! But still I'm curious. I have three Canon A-1s, one is 2410990. I'm guessing that there weren't many A-1s made before production ended in 1985.

Ben, Jim: thanks for your replies and yes, I reckon we'll never know. I doubt Canon would have information after 35 plus years.

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Canon now is actually a different corporation than what produced those cameras then and they might not have any numbers now (not really a different company but sort of). I'm sure there were separate tallies for the AE 1 and AE 1 program unlike what was suggested among my cronies at the book store. I find it hard to believe one of my copies is the last one made even if it's rather high at 2410990 just based on the build number inside the film chamber. I won't lose sleep (or miss out on a photo op) but I will keep checking as I can. To be continued.

Interesting how the changeover from the mechanical F-bodies to the electronic A-bodies completely reversed the sales trends. The mechanical match needle FTb & FTbn vastly outsold the mechanical (except for the slow shutter speeds) auto-exposure EF, but the exact opposite was true for the A-series. The auto exposure AE-1 sold about 8 times as many as the match needle AT-1. Yes, the EF was quite expensive back then, and yes it devoured batteries - especially if left on, but such a complete reversal was the ushering in of a new age in 35mm SLR where AE started to rule the day. What info i have shows nearly 1.8 million FTbs (both models) vs. About 320,000 EFs. A-series is over 5.7 million AE-1s vs.

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450,000 to maybe a little more than 1/2 million AT-1s.



Canon Ae 1 Serial Number Years