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Re: [OM] OM-1 serials was Prism rot

Subject: Re: [OM] OM-1 serials was Prism rot
From: Mark Dapoz <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 13:32:10 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 21 May 2002 dlau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Mark, what is the significance of the list of OM-1 bodies
> with six digit serial numbers on your web page?  I notice
> that the range goes up to 823xxx, which is quite high in
> my experience.  I have both a non-MD OM-1 and an OM-1MD
> that has a six digit serial number.  Are you saying these
> are "special" in some way?

I started compiling a list of OM-1 non-MD serial numbers to try and figure
out exactly when Olympus stopped building M-1's.  There's nothing really
special about these OM-1's, but some of them do have surprisingly high
serial numbers.  My theory is that Olympus produced a batch of replacement
non-MD bottom plates with high serial numbers, but I don't have any conrete
proof of that yet.
                                        -mark


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