Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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