M Lens serial numbers?

[randy_samos]

Has anyone compiled a list of M lens serial numbers that might help me find the date a lens was built? I've looked around, and (obviously) not found anything out there.

 

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Tnx - /r

[Niels - NHSN]

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href="http://www.forloren.dk/lbf/leica_lens_serial.htm">http://www.for

loren.dk/lbf/leica_lens_serial.htm</a>

[randy_samos]

My! That was quick.

 

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Thanks Niels - /r

[wgpinc]

Brian Bower has a list of lens # ranges in his Leica book. Chester

Sartorious has serial # in his Identifying Leica Lenses book along

with pictures and pretty good descriptions of individual features.

Erwin Puts wrote a newsletter recently describing some of the chaos

and confusion surrounding Leica serial #. Cheers. G

[andy_piper2]

Leica issues blocks of numbers for given lenses on a given date - but

may not actually USE all the numbers for several years.

 

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I have a 90 f/2 with a serial number 'from' 1977 - even though the lens

design wasn't actually introduced until 1980.

 

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The number lists will tell you (roughly) the EARLIEST date a lens could

have been made - maybe.

[adam_lang1]

Andy-

 

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Yeah, like my yellowing collapsible SM 50 Summicron #921,654 = 1951

for a lens not introduced until 1953.