On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Stephen Troy wrote:
> While this is quite true, I was referring to manufacture date and not sales
> date. Mark's M-1 and OM-1 lists at http://olympus.dementia.org/M-1/ tell
> an interesting story. If you look at the list of serial numbers and
> manufacturing dates (not sales dates), it is clear that the serial numbers
> are not sequential. They're all over the place, with some M-1s numbered
> higher than OM-1s. The possibility that the majority of these cameras had
> their bottom plates switched must be small (although the M-1 on his list
> with a high serial number is a likely candidate).
It's also complicated by the fact that many of the M-1's which were produced
were retrofitted with OM-1 top covers before being shipped out of Japan.
That makes some OM-1's have serial numbers and production dates which are
well within the M-1 range (since they were originally M-1's).
-mark
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