Actually, I thought it was so those of us who are interested can gauge the
equipment's approximage generation -- though it's impossible to establish
any item's precise age by serial number, it's often possible to estimate
what "type" or model camera or lens it may be.
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From: Johan Malmström <jmalmstrom@xxxxxxx>
To: olympus Zuiko.sls.bc.ca <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: [OM] What's so secret about S/N?
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> Hi!
>
> When you mention you sweet OMs and Zuikos serialnumbers, you almost always
> leave out the last three digits? Why's that?
>
> // Johan
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