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S/N Links

Stephen Gandymaintains a excellent www site with Leica serial numbers ofcameras & lenses sorted into models and dates:

<cameraquest.com/classics.htm>

Detailed information about Leica (serial numbers, lens types, history etc) is available at CameraQuest and Pacific Rim Cameras web-sites. If you are looking for the lens prices, check the Leica Lens Price Guide, or use M39 search to find other lenses manufactured with Leica screw mount. Leica Bruger Information - Objektiv serienr. If you have a serial number of a Leica lens, this list will tell you when it was produced (1933-2000). This list covers lenses from the Leica R series (SLR), the Leica M and the screw mount series (Rangefinder).If you furthermore wish to determine which the model or generation. You can also search your lens in the Leica serial number lookup tool. Leica lens serial numbers database. Here’s the database list of Leica lens serial numbers below. This is only for lenses, if you are looking for bodies, it’s here: Leica camera serial numbers. The database of Leica lens serial numbers will only show 100 records at a time. Leica M's Sorted by Model and Serial Number 1954 to 1999: M3 to M6 TTL The raw data was supplied courtesy of Leica, by Mr. Horst Braun with the approval of Leica's CEO, Mr. I'm sure I'm speaking for all Leica enthusiasts in thanking. Leica IIIF – Red Dial (Leica IIIF RD) with delayed action machanism. The Leica IIIF Red Dial with delayed action-mechanism was introduced in 1954. A total of 59 000 units were produced. The serial numbers range between #685 001 and #825 000. Leica IIIF – Midland Ontario. The Leica IIIF was also maufactured in the new Leitz factory in.

After this long page has loaded, do a search (or scroll down half way) tofind the 'Leica Serial Numbers' heading in red. There you will find 5 separatelinks to serial number pages. Eg., this is the particular link tothe M & R SLR camera bodies S/N page:

<cameraquest.com/leicanum.htm>

While the following shows a list of the exact date of manufacture(to the month) for each batch of Ms (until 1999):

Leica Serial Numbers Screw Mount

<cameraquest.com/mtype.htm>

If you are just looking for lens serial numbers / date of manufacture, then you may find it faster to look at this page:

<forloren.dk/lbf/leica_lens_serial.htm>

S/N are a guide only

Please note: you should always take these serial number lists to be only a rough guide to the year of manufacture, especially for cameras andlenses made after 1993. As noted by Jerry Pfilein May 2002:

[…] Leica does not make production in 'blocks' of bodies or lenses. Rather they allocate blocks of serial numbers to certain items e.g. the M7. As an example they may have allocated a block of 10,000 serial numbers for the first M7s. At the same time they may have allocated the next 3,000 numbers to R8s. But they may be producing both the R8 and the M7 at the same time. Whichever body runs out of serial numbers first just gets a new allocation of serial numbers and production may or may not continue based on demand.
The practical effect is that the next body out the door is not necessarily one serial number higher than the next as multiple items are produced at the same time. Sometimes blocks allocated to one item are not used wholly for that item and instances of an entirely different item than the block was initially allocated to are discovered.
The system works the same way with lenses although the lack of any serial number/time of production sequence is even more pronounced due to the greater number of individual lens types.

As an example of this I have a 100mm Macro APO-Elmarit R with aserial number which, according the # lists, predates the first actual year of production!

Leica M Serial Numbers Lenses

Years of manufacture

If you are wondering about how many years each model was made, the have a lookat the following threads at the Leica Forum at greenspun.com:

Leica Serial Numbers Year

1. <Greenspun.com: #006wqm> - M models, years of manufacture
2. <Greenspun.com: #006wrM> - R models (ditto)

Leica M Lens Serial Number

For the record, the M6 (and its variants) were the longest camera in productionat seventeen years, while the R6(.2) is the longest life-span R at thirteen years.