Be careful when cleaning your camera, solvents will remove the stamp. Take a close look inside the left side film chamber of your F1N to spot the ink-stamp. Serial# is 116xxx, which seems to make sense as it is a lower number. My F1N reads "W514", indicating May, 1982. In the late 80´s the factory code was placed before the date code, for example "UG10xx" stands for a lens/body manufactured at Utsonomiya factory in october 1992. After that there might stand a letter, indicating the factory ("F" = Fukushima, "O" = Oita).
The last 2 numbers must be something internal. The next two numbers indicate the month of that specific year with the leading "0" often omitted. They started with an "A" for 1960, "B" for 1961."Z" for 1985, then starting again with "A" for 1986, "B" for 1987 and so on. "You can tell the year and month your Canon lens/body was manufactured by means of an ink-stamp inside your camera (black ink) or on the mount-side of your lens (white ink). Here is some stuff I found on the web about 4 years ago - it worked for my Canon A-1, F-1N and my EOS-1N and several lenses but you have to extrapolate the data for more recent times:
Like to know the age of this camera before parting with my money.Ĭan anyone tell me who I can contact to find out when this camera I have the oppertunity of acquiring a 'Mint' EOS 1v but I would
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