Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As many of you may have guessed, the serial numbers for the LHSA cameras are not sequential. The serial numbers appear to cover a broad range. I was told by Leica Solms that this is the result of current production methods at Leica Solms. As the serial numbers are engraved on the shoe, if for some reason the shoe or the TTL electronics in it are defective, the shoe is trashed along with its serial number! They do not re-engrave the serial number on a new shoe. Hence the wide spread of serial numbers. Future Leica historians will have a very difficult time making sense of the serial numbers assigned specific cameras. Bill Rosauer