Very odd indeed!
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John Hermanson
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Chris Crawford wrote:
> I have two OM-4T black bodies, obtained 12 years apart in different parts of
> the country and their serial numbers are only 10 apart! I got my first one
> in 1994 directly from Olympus. They gave it to me after trying 4 times to
> repair an OM-G that had been bounced around in the auto accident where I
> totaled my first car at age 16. They didn't make the OM-G anymore by then so
> they were kind enough to give me an OM-4T after my father told them that I
> had 3 lenses, a T20 and a Winder 2 and he had 4 lenses, a T20 and a winder
> 2! The guy from Oly said he was doing that for us since we were loyal
> Olympus customers! That was when I was a teenager living in my hometown of
> Fort Wayne, Indiana. The OM-4T arrived when I was 18.
>
> Anyway, a few months ago I bought a near mint condition black OM-4T from a
> local man here in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I now live. I moved here last
> June after meeting my fiance on the internet! I never paid attention to the
> serial numbers on the cameras till tonight when I was playing with the new
> one and decided to check it's serial against my older one to see which one
> was really older. Turns out they were probably made the same day or close to
> it judging from the close serials.
>
> The old one ends in 575, and the new one ends in 565...both have the same
> beginning digits. So..my 'old' one is actually the newest one, though you
> wouldn't know from looking at them. The one I bought in Santa Fe, which has
> the lower number, looks like new while the one I got in high school is a
> little beat up from almost 13 years of constant use.
>
> How funny is it that I got two of these cameras so close in serials 12 years
> apart in different parts of the country!
>
>
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