Update: A reader just sent me another way of determining the production year of Leica cameras and lenses: just got to this website, and type the serial number. You may also look up a specific lens serial number at the French. For detailed reading and a complete range of serial numbers you may find the Leica Compendium by Erwin Puts helpful. Also visit the Leica Lens Compendium and the Leica Camera Compendium. This is the list of Leitz and Leica lens serial numbers (not cameras) and which year that lens was approximately produced. Digital rangefinders: Leica M8, Leica M8.2, Leica M9, Leica M9-P, Leica M-E, Leica M Monochrom, Leica M Type 240, Leica M-P Typ240, Leica M Edition 60. Well, M6 and M7 serial numbers may matter as well, as the 1st batch or two of the.85 M6TTL has some electrical problems and eat batteries like popcorn (most of them were hopefully adressed under Leica passport warranty). More if the Elmar is coated, and has red numbers in the focusing scales. You're talking somewhere around $200 to $400. Consider that Leica's serial numbers really did start at 1, altough they aren't completely densely used. But these are not rare cameras, probably 50,000 made of that model. Leica M Serial Number Check Leica Iii Serial Numbers Depends a LOT on condition. Because of this orderly behavior, it it trivial to figure out when your lens was made

Leica made lens number 1,000,000, a 50mm f/1.5 Summarit, on 24 October 1952, at which time they already had onver 100 years of experiance. Serial numbers as low as 50,000 are still floating around.

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