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Subject: [OM] Re: OM Zuiko lenses on E series digital bodies
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:59:48 -0500
425981 chrome OM-1 was made around October 1974.

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Dharma Singh wrote:
> 2008/2/19, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx>:
> 
>>The serial number is on the base plate, the manufacturing code (H 8 1 7 in
>>your second example) is on the camera back.  Both parts are very easily
>>interchangeable between camera bodies, and there is no way to be sure that
>>one was originally installed with the other, whether on the current body or
>>not.
>>
>>--
>>Piers
> 
> 
> Thanks Piers,
> 
> Even if the base plates are not the original ones, that doesn't
> explain the drop in the serial number. To me it looks as if some [or
> all] factories first continued numbering through from one model to
> another and after a while added a 1 before it, which may explain the
> numbering of the OM1MDs from the 'H' factory, because you can't
> imagine them producing more than 1 million bodies in one month and the
> next month maybe a few hundreds.
> 
>>OM1MD      425981        Chrome body     H 8  1 7           January 1978
>>OM1MD    1440857        Chrome body     H 8 2 6           February 1978
>>OM1MD    1441364        Chrome body     H 8 3 4               March 1978
> 
> 
> Dharma S.
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