You'll be able to get the start date for most Nikon DSLRs and their specs too.I maintain the lens serial number site, and make the assumption that the announcement (in most cases) more or less coincides with the start of production - Nikon usually builds up stocks for a month or two before they are available. 7 = July, 5 = 1985 based on serial number range.Here's a with info and a few links on F3 serial numbers.And for those who haven't seen it yet, with lens serial numbers.And like you Andy, I have not been able to find a Nikon SLR serial number directory.Ĭheck, they have a history of new announcements from Nikon (among others) going back several years. I cannot remember if this was used on other bodies.Mine has the code 75VL. The first place is the month - 1-9,O,N or D, and the second place is the last number of the year. Nikon F100 serial number US2222xxx Date estimated 2002 (based on known dates and serial numbers from other posters)Nikon F3hp serial#173xxxx Jul 1985Just for reference on the F3 bodies, if you remove the back and look on the body where the back hinges, you'll see a 4-place alpha-numeric code. (Personally, I would love to hear from any FA owners who could help me find out what year a 5304XXX serial number belongs to:biggrin.As I said, there appears to be no official source for this info (but please do correct me if I'm wrong), so please take part in the thread if you have anything at all to share. If we are lucky enough to get lots of posts, then it should be easy for forum members to simply put the model that they are interested in into the 'Search' function and bring up any entries for it that way:smile. Still, if we can at least get some posts from those who do have a fairly good idea of the year that their camera hails from, then we could all benefit from that knowledge:smile.This thread is open to any Nikon SLRs (and RFs too, I guess). Lenses, no problem - bodies, forget it:frown:!So, I would like to ask for volunteers who know the year of manufacture (or purchase, if bought new) of their Nikon SLRs to post details of their Nikon SLR serial numbers (or at least the first 3 or 4 digits:wink, so that the rest of us can get an idea when our cameras were built.Obviously, if (like me:redface you own Nikon SLRs but don't know the year of manufacture, there's not much point in posting just the serial number here. OK, this is a long shot, but I have tried really hard (without success) to find an online source for dating Nikon camera bodies.
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