The location of where the identification number can be presented is highlighted in the below image-Please see the examples of serial number locations highlighted in the pictures listed below- You can find your identification number printed on a white sticker label on the side of package your Camcorder was available in. Whereas on various other models, just a number will be displayed. On certain versions, the identification number will be proceeded by the letters NO.
This will be presented under of the battery grip. Consumer service warranty might not be available-grey items will not be qualified to take advantage of neighborhood Canon service warranty assistance. Refunds and returns might be tough or impossible-as vendors outside your region may not go through your neighborhood customer regulations on item returns. While on the surface area, grey items can show up to be a bargain, sellers commonly attempt to damage the grey items by including, changing or removing guarantees, devices and manuals, compromising your Canon experience. Also please note that future dates shown in the table are predictions/expectations.Canon goes to terrific lengths to guarantee each Canon product is carefully localised to the area planned by Canon for its sale and general use. However, regarding the applicability of this decoding to DSLRs, the article notes thatĬanon EOS DSLR camera body serial numbers, at least for 2013, do not follow this chart.
2014)Ĭanon Camera & Lens Date/Factory Code Explained from .uk, written 2006.Īt Bryan Carnathan's site, The Digital Picture, the article Determining the Age of a Canon Lens Using Serial Numbers and Date Codes shows a table for converting the first two digits of the serial number of a Canon lens. 2014) is consistent with the box date (Oct. It seems that the old date code system is still in use - a TS-E17 UC0903 (Sept.
This TS-E24 mk2 lens 'UD0406' was purchased in 2015 (box dated May 2015) The date codes restarted at 'A' again in 2012. Interestingly, this page indicates that as of 2016, at least some lenses still have this date code stamped on them (contradicting other references that say the date code system was phased out in 2010 or 2011: In the UG0205 example, therefore, my lens was built in Utsonomiya in February 1992.Ĭanon Date Codes from Bob Atkins Photography EOS FAQ.Ĭanon lens date codes and EF lens chronology. The next two digits are the month of manufacture, and the last two digits are apparently internal codes meaningful only to Canon. The second letter is the date code, in which A is the year 1986. The first letter represents the name of the factory at which the product was made - often O for Oita (cameras) or U for Utsonomiya (lenses). Not all EOS products have this code (for some reason Canon gear built in Taiwan often lacks date coding, and Canon is dropping date codes as of 2010) and those that do often have the code printed in shiny black ink that’s hard to read. 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). 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.