Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]HiJoseph, How do you find these 0.58 M6, from an user's point of view? Regards, Kam - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <yaojkfdr@netvigator.com> To: "Leica User Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 9:22 PM Subject: [Leica] M6 TTL 0.58 serial numbers > LUGgers, > > An interesting observation: I received a shipment of the latest M6 TTL 0.58 > cameras last week. Most of the cameras are in the range of #259xxxx, i.e. > the latest. However, there were also a few 0.58 cameras which had serial > numbers in the #246xxxx range. If I recall correctly, the first batch of M6 > TTL 0.72 cameras were #246xxxx when launched in September 1998. > > Incidentally, the latest shipment of R8 also contained cameras with really > early serial numbers. I was getting R8s with #247xxxx until a few months > ago. The new R8 cameras coming from Leica are now #229xxxx, these numbers > were assigned to early R8s back in 1996. Their warranty papers, however, > indicate they are new cameras as these booklets were printed only a few > months ago. > > I wonder if Leica is recycling serial numbers, or are they simply using > numbers previously assigned but not used. > > Thanks for any input. > > Regards, > > Joseph > >