#Canon camera serial number lookup serial number#
These alphanumeric codes are separate from the numeric serial number and are usually hidden away somewhere - inside the film chamber of most cameras or on the black light baffle on the underside of many lenses. # is a 2-digit number that has no apparent meaning for decoding the date of manufacture.Ĭanon EOS products often have date codes stamped onto them. 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 serial number lookup 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. 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.
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