What is the main camera you shoot with?

[kevinteh]

I wonder if anybody know how many units of Canon 10D and 300D are out there today? :lol:

[PacAce]

I wonder if anybody know how many units of Canon 10D and 300D are out there today? :lol:

The persons with the last 10D and the last 300D, please tell us what your body serial numbers are so that we can determine how many of these cameras were built. Thanks in advance.

:mrgreen:

[Pekka]

I set up a poll :)

[CyberDyneSystems]

At some point in August,. the 10D serial numbers were up to starting at 7... I was under the assumption that meant 7 million,. but I suppose it could have been 700,000 ??

Is anyone near there 10D and can see how many digits in the serial? I think there are more than 9 if I remember correctly. So some of the digits are like model info or something.

[Cadwell]

Is anyone near there 10D and can see how many digits in the serial? I think there are more than 9 if I remember correctly. So some of the digits are like model info or something.

There are 10 digits in my 10Ds serial number.

[Guillermo Freige]

I don't know if the 300D/DRebel and 10D uses the same S/N convention, but my DRebel has a 036 (model number?) and then 7 digits showing the camera number, so 10 millon cameras can be acomodated there. BTW mine is below 2500 (I bought it the 1st week), so a lot of zeros are present in the S/N :)
My S50 also have a 10-digit serial, but as no zeros are present I don't know where the actual camera number ends. If the same convention is used my S50 is over 3 millions (it seems a little too much to me because I bought it in May and it was introduced in February).

[ilya]

Hard to say how many Rebs and 10Ds. Canon doesn't disclose unit volume. PMA has some of those stats, but you need to be a member.

My guess is around 2 million units.

Total world wide digital camera market is predicted at about 70 million units in 2004, so it was probably around 50m units this year.

Canon claims a 20% share, which is about 10 million units. Assuming that 3/4 of that pie is P&S, that leaves 1/4 or 2,500,000 units for Rebel, 10D, 1D, 1Ds.

Imagine that the Reb/10D is probably a good chunk of that, so one can say that there were around 2 million copies of Reb and 10D shipped. Probably twice as many 10Ds as the Reb, since that came out in April, and judging by that poll.

'Course all that's just a guess.

By the way, Canon Digital camera sales in 2003 - about $4 billion dollars, though that includes accessories, lenses, etc; thats DOUBLE from last year.

[Canuck]

Interesting, I have a 042xxxxxxx 10D and I got mine end April, 03. Tat is a 10 digit number so there could be upwards or 9 billion (9,999,999,999) that could been made, but that seems extremely unlikely.

To answer your question, of how many Canon cameras are there out there? Lots and lots and lots!

Cheers from England,
Canuck

[Canon10D]

I shoot with 10D, serial number 10203XXXXX (am I having the highest serial number in this forum so far?) :D Bought on Nov 2003.

[Tom W]

I'm probably more newbie with the 10D - SN 1220xxxxxx. Bought in January. Its so new, it came with the latest firmware update already installed. :D

[Bubber Jones]

Ok 10D Received last week... 1320XXXXXX...

What do I win?

Maybe I win at being the guy that bought a camera that Canon replaced a week later :shock: (Sorry, wrong thread.. :wink: )

[PacAce]

And my 10D S/N is 02202xxxxx. I bought mine in early March. So, based on the other s/n that I've seen for the 10D, my guess is that the first 2 digits on the left is probably the month that the 10D was manufactured. The 3rd digit may be the model number for the 10D as all the s/n I've seen so far has a 2 in this position. That leaves, at most, 7 digits for the body number. I didn't notice any position for the year of manufacture unless the 4th position is used starting with 0 for the 1st year. Or,if a model is only for a year, then it wouldn't be necessary.

[PacAce]

Ok 10D Received last week... 1320XXXXXX...

What do I win?

Maybe I win at being the guy that bought a camera that Canon replaced a week later :shock: (Sorry, wrong thread.. :wink: )

Well, you just threw my theory out the door unless the 1st two digits indicate both the month and the year of the body. Yeah, that makes sense.

[Tom W]

Ok 10D Received last week... 1320XXXXXX...

What do I win?

Maybe I win at being the guy that bought a camera that Canon replaced a week later :shock: (Sorry, wrong thread.. :wink: )

Well, you just threw my theory out the door unless the 1st two digits indicate both the month and the year of the body. Yeah, that makes sense.

How about the sequential month since 01/2003? In other words, 132 could be the 13th month in sequence, model 2 (the 10D), then the serial number.

[PacAce]

Ok 10D Received last week... 1320XXXXXX...

What do I win?

Maybe I win at being the guy that bought a camera that Canon replaced a week later :shock: (Sorry, wrong thread.. :wink: )

Well, you just threw my theory out the door unless the 1st two digits indicate both the month and the year of the body. Yeah, that makes sense.

How about the sequential month since 01/2003? In other words, 132 could be the 13th month in sequence, model 2 (the 10D), then the serial number.

Thanks, Tom. Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind although I didn't word it right.

So, Bubber, what's the 5th digit in your s/n? That should pretty much give us an idea of how hundred thousand units of 10D have been built so far. That's assuming we're correct with our assumption of the last 7 digits being the sequence number.

[Tom W]

Thanks, Tom. Yes, that's exactly what I had in mind although I didn't word it right.

So, Bubber, what's the 5th digit in your s/n? That should pretty much give us an idea of how hundred thousand units of 10D have been built so far. That's assuming we're correct with our assumption of the last 7 digits being the sequence number.

I can tell you that my fifth digit is 5, so at least 500K were built as of the end of December, 2003 if our serial number assumptions hold true. I can also tell you that they shipped mine with the latest firmware update, so final assembly and checkout may have been as late as mid-January.

[Bubber Jones]

My 5th digit is 5 as well and it came with the latest firmware and v6.1 of the software disk...

[GenEOS]

I am glad I am in the 6% of users still shooting d30/60's !!!

I love it...

Ain't technolgy great..

[IndyJeff]

PacAce you are correct about the number sequence being more than just the number of products manufactured.

I used to work in a factory that made conveyor belts now a typical serial number would be something like 1075341211720

10..the month
75.. the year
34..the number of the plant (We only had 4 plants but they were 30-34 go figure)
12..would have been the crew which made it (1=1st shift 2=crew number)
11..would be the month it was shipped
720.. would have been the number produced by that factory for the current year

If we ever had a problem we could, by looking at the serial number, tell where, when and who made it. It would help to identify if there was a material problem and if a pattern showed, we could send a guy out to fix it for the others made under the same material list.
Once we had some "super glue", before it was a available to the public, that went bad. It was causing a delamination at the seam of the belt. Even tho they were stapled they could still come apart. So they sent one crew out to visit each factory that was using belts with that glue. They injected new glue and re-stapled each belt on location.

Canon may very well use a system like that.
Enough of my vast knowledge of useless trivia.

[robertwgross]

The actual serial number tells the factory more about *when* it was built and *where* it was built than it tells us the total quantity out there. As others have suggested, there are date codes and type codes embedded in the overall number, and the total quantity is probably something in the realm of seven digits. What is important to the factory is that there cannot be two units with the same serial number. Unfortunately, some users have had trouble with the serial number ink disappearing. But then there are numbers stored internally in the camera.

---Bob Gross---

[tracksent]

Would this give you a clue as to how many there are out there.
0930404364

[garethhhhh]

Most manufacturers don't sequentially number their products because it's just plain stupid for competitive analysis purposes. If you have serial number 0002098798 and the first unit was serial number 0001000001, it doesn't mean you own the 1,098,798th example that rolled off the assembly line. If this were the case, it would be easy for the competition to determine almost the exact number of units sold.

There are probably ballpark figures to place a camera in a particular year (maybe even month), but there's no way to determine how many have been sold just by looking at the serial number. :wink:

[mustanggt]

I just got my 10D two weeks ago the serial is 132050XXX7

[Kees Terberg]

D60... waiting for the D1 mkII to come out though...

[EDIT] I just received my 1D Mark II, yeeehha!

[kraterz]

EOS-3 film shooter here. The 10D just doesn't cut it in terms of AF performance and response, and the 1D/1D2 is too expensive for me.
* * goes back into hibernation and waits another couple of years. * *

[xuxu1]

I just got my 10D two weeks ago the serial is 132050XXX7

I got mine about 3 hours ago! :D
serial is 1330xxxxxx :D :D :D

Still going to use my G5 but not as often as i used to :P

Regards
Ed

[Andy_T]

EOS-3 film shooter here. The 10D just doesn't cut it in terms of AF performance and response, and the 1D/1D2 is too expensive for me.
* * goes back into hibernation and waits another couple of years. * *

... prices for used 1D's might come down to sensible reasons, now the 1DII is out.

Regards,
Andy

PS: Cool! The first 1DII user exposing himself in the statistics :)

[evilenglishman]

How can someone say the main camera you shoot with? is a 1D MkII when it isn't even out yet?? :roll:

[ozziegn]

been using a 10D since Thanksgiving of last year and so far I love it.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/ozziegn1/equip1.jpg

I'm just paranoid of the recent outbreak of posts from people saying how their shutters on their 10Ds have taken at dump at like 20K+ shutter releases which isnt alot if you ask me.

heck, I dont use my 10D all that much and I still have over 4K shutter releases so far. I just hope I certainly get more than 20K before mine takes a dump. :(

[ozziegn]

How can someone say the main camera you shoot with? is a 1D MkII when it isn't even out yet?? :roll:

maybe for the very FEW select people on this earth who might own some sort of pre-production unit.

[Kees Terberg]

Hey guys, I just got my 1D mark II... what a beauty!

[cricket]

I use a 1Ds Mark II. That wasn't included in the poll options.

[Bob_A]

I use a 1Ds Mark II. That wasn't included in the poll options.

'Cause this poll is ancient :lol: . The last to post to it prior to Kees was on March 9, 2004!

[KevC]

300D. I only have one dSLR. Will start shooting some B/W negatives when I start school in Sept (access to darkroom).

[Rob612]

The 350D/XT is missing from the list. I cannot vote :D

[Steve Parr]

The serial number on my 300 is "7".

Okay, no it's not. I have no idea what it is...

Steve

[mbze430]

3 cameras missing from the poll. 20D, 350D/XT, and 1DSMKII...time for an update..hehehe

[FlyingPete]

3 cameras missing from the poll. 20D, 350D/XT, and 1DSMKII...time for an update..hehehe

It takes the secret handshake and membership to the secret club in order to edit a poll!

[Longwatcher]

Like I use a 1DsMkII, not on list, but then I had not paid attention to when the poll was made until I read it later on,

However, Since I didn't see the poll the first time, I probably should add that I will check my 10D when I get home and see what serial number it has as it was one of the first in North America (I got it on day one - literally).

[cricket]

'Cause this poll is ancient :lol: . The last to post to it prior to Kees was on March 9, 2004!
:lol: That is funny! Oh well, I love my camera, and the images are phenomenal!

[Persian-Rice]

WOW old post.

Other? I mostly shoot with the Mamiya and Digital Back. I will shoot SLR at sports events, I havent gotten anything for a few weeks but there is a big rally event in Quebec I have been asked to shoot in two weeks. Then I go the GP in montreal and shoot that for fun.

I guess if I had to choose SLR it would obviously be the MKII. But most definitely I now shoot large or medium format digitals. Need to get lots of practice using them for next year.......