Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Serial number lists are a guide only. Batches may be allocated and not fully utilised. This can result in numbers appearing way out of sync. Having said that, the "red dot" is replaced with a new one every time a camera is serviced. John Collier > From: HTFoto <htfoto@yahoo.com> > > I'm new to the LUG and wanted to say hi - have been > into photography for all of 3 years and have just been > bitten by the Leica bug. I have a bit of (an > inconsequential) mystery here regarding my > just-acquired M6. Its s/n is 16887xx, which according > to the list at Mr. Stephen Gandy's Cameraquest site > places its production around 1986. From my searches > in the LUG archives, this should be two years before > production moved from Wetzlar to Solms... yet this M6 > has no "Ernst Leitz Wetzlar" engraving on its top > plate, and the front dot says "Leica" rather than > "Leitz". Sooooo... was this camera made in Wetzlar or > Solms? Thanks for the help. > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html