MM is the month of manufacture: 01 = January. So if your 7D has a date code, it could only start with X, Y, Z (X being unlikely).
#Canon camera date code code
Y is a letter code for year of manufacture, starting with A = 1986, through Z = 2011 (they used the same A-Z letter code for year of manufacture starting with 1960, but used a slightly different format for the rest of the date code then). Thus, date codes for lenses usually start with "U", and SLR bodies' date codes start with "O" (or "F" until about 1991).
Apparently, most (if not all) of the lenses have been made at Utsonomiya, and SLR bodies are made at Oita (and formerly Fukushima). P is the factory where the product was manufactured: "F" (Fukushima), "U" (Utsonomiya), or "O" (Oita). The date code will have the following format, PYMM# That practice was phased out for some, but not all, products in 2010 or 2011.Īccording to Wikipedia, the Canon 7D was announced in late 2009, so if the camera was made early in the production run, it's possible (but unlikely) that your camera body has a date code stamped on it.
#Canon camera date code serial
Another idea I had was that it indicated the final year of AE-1 production, but the AE-1 wasn't discontinued until 1984, and there are other Omega AE-1's made in different years.Possibly, but the information to decode date of manufacture doesn't seem to be known outside of the Canon company.Ĭanon bodies and lenses used to have a date code stamped on them, separate from the serial number. Interestingly, I have not found any reference to an Omega in the date code of any other model only the AE-1 seems to have it, and only some AE-1's at that.īecause Omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet, it often is used to mean "final" or "the end" or "the ultimate" for example, in the Christian Bible, Revelation 22:13 says, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." If this were a professional-grade camera, it might be argued that Canon was showing some hubris by claiming that the AE-1 is the ultimate camera, but this seems unlikely since (1) not all AE-1's seem to have the Omega, and (2) the AE-1 wasn't Canon's top of the line model (by 1980, it wasn't even the top A-series camera). A quick Google search turned up a couple of references to other AE-1's with Omegas (not all made in the same year), but no explanation of what Canon meant by it. This is a reasonable date for an AE-1, but the Omega puzzles me. I read this as December 1980 (or January 1980 if the final character is a letter O, indicating that the camera was made at Canon's Oita factory, rather than a zero). It consists of a Greek capital Omega (Ω�) followed by U 1250 (with a gap after the U).
#Canon camera date code series
I took it out shooting this morning with a Vivitar Series 1 28-90 f/2.8-3.5 and a roll of no-name 100 ASA B&W negative film pix forthcoming once I get the film developed.Īnyway, the reason I'm posting at the moment is that I find the date code printed in the film compartment rather puzzling. They rated it as EX+ condition, and I have to say the thing looks and acts like it's fresh out of the box (aside from the missing black plastic hot shoe cover, which doubles as a key to open the battery compartment - I imagine most used AE-1's are missing that part, and it's no big deal because a fingernail is adequate to get the battery compartment open). Yesterday I received a Canon AE-1 from KEH.
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