Bruce, This link is what I have used, and although I cannot be sure the logic applies to binoculars in the Canon range, the results the table gives seem plausible enough with all the ones I have checked Yours would be made in September 2014 and Binastro's May of 2014. Mine would be from November 2010. I bought mine about two years ago, but knew they had been on the dealer's shelf for a couple of years and were of stock that may have been at the importer's for a while prior to that, so the date is plausible if a bit early. How do these dates seem with respect to your purchase dates? Thank you Kimmo. I have been curious about that since I bought them. 2014 date fits with what I know. Results 1 - 48 of 283 - NIKON LaserForce 10x42 Rangefinder Binoculars #16212 Black. To prevent fraud, serial numbers will be sent via eBay messages. Jul 13, 2018 - Your camera's serial number will be checked against those of affected. To not be affected by the Check Your Serial Number search above, you. Mine were purchased second hand on July 1, 2015. The previous owner said he brought them new from Amazon for a special project, I think near the beginning of 2015, then ultimately decided he no longer had a need for them. Thought I would summarize who has what. Per the chart, the first two characters represent the month and year increased sequentially every month until hitting near 99, then starting over again with 01 in Jan, 2013. The third looks to be a batch number which is unchanged, and the last five are the serial number. Kimmo xx x xxxxx - Nov 2010 Dennis 87 7 002xx - Feb 2012 BruceH 21 7 000xx - Sep. 2014 Binastro 17 7 00xxx - May 2014 I am wondering if the serial number starts over at zero each month. If so, then they made 200 plus in February of 2012. If that is the case, my two digit number in Sept of 2015 makes me think the serial number was reset to zero on September 1. My glass was bought new from Amazon, serial number 7, bought in late 2007. If the Canon 10 digit coding was in effect then, it would imply an Aug 2006 manufacture. The serial number marker (thank you, Binastro) between the tubes is only a strip of plastic held in a small recess. In my case, it has faded almost completely. A magnifier with a strong light can still barely allow the 147 to be discerned. Fortunately I also kept the box cover with the serial number. Guess Canon is no different from Zeiss, they too had serial numbers on bits that could easily go missing. Ravanaprabhu ariyathe song download. Mine was bought in 2015 from ebay.com for $650. ![]() You missed that one Dennis! It was new in box with all documents, but without a case which is useless anyway. It now sits in an nice Opticron leather case which has, unfortunately, been discontinued. It's numbered 82600xxx so manufactured in September 2011. I have always wondered why it was so cheap, but give the manufacturing date 0f 2011 and the purchase date of 2015 it would appear that it had probably been sitting on a shelf somewhere and the case had been lost so the seller just wanted to cover his costs. Although I had to pay postage, tax and import duty of $200 the total cost was still only $850 - £566 at the exchange rate at the time. That was half the UK price at the time. Sometimes you can be lucky. I will post what lead up to me buying it on another thread. 10x30 IS Mk II 37100xxx January 2016 probably. 10x30 IS Mk I 2200xxxC August 1998?? Rather poor IS and internal moisture bought secondhand. I doubt I'd buy another IS used. Adobe premiere pro download free windows 7. 1998 instruction book. Unfilled warranty card. A Bushnell IS was also a secondhand mistake. The Bushnell 10x35 worked for about half an hour then played up. Way out of warranty. It looks like new, everything complete, but to describe this example as a piece of junk is praising it too highly. You can use it as is but who would want to. It's numbered 82600xxx so manufactured in September 2011. I will post what lead up to me buying it on another thread Your number of 82-6-00xxx is the first of the eight digit numbers showing a 6 for the third digit rather than 7. I wonder if that means Canon made a change to those with the 7 as the third digit. The link from Kimmo says the third digit represents a batch number. Since Kimmo has the oldest 8 digit unit so far, hopefully he will post some more detail on his serial number. I suspect the third digit will be 6 or maybe lower. 7 - Aug 2006 - Etudiant 72 x xxxxx - Nov 2010 - Kimmo 82 6 00xxx - Sep 2011 - Stan 87 7 002xx - Feb 2012 - Dennis 17 7 00xxx - May 2014 - Binastro 21 7 000xx - Sep 2014 - BruceH. Has Canon improved any aspect of the 10X42 IS WP since their first release in 2005? That's the earliest I see reviews for the bin from Amazon. There was some change to the internal field stops, because the early models were actually 10x37 rather than 10x42, because of internal obstruction. Apart from that, there may have been coating improvements, although the glass still does not have any Lotutec style hydrophobic coatings, at least afaik. More generally, if the last 3 digits represent the monthly production number for that batch, it indicates Canon produces only a few thousand 10x42s annually. These are hobby shop quantities compared to the millions of camera lenses Canon sells every year. It suggests a business volume of millions or at best tens of millions of dollars, in a company with annual revenues of $30 billion.
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