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

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

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.

I set up a poll

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.

There are 10 digits in my 10Ds serial number.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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 (Sorry, wrong thread.. )

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.

Bubber Jones wrote:
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 (Sorry, wrong thread.. )

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.

PacAce wrote:

Bubber Jones wrote:
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 (Sorry, wrong thread.. )

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.

Tom W wrote:

PacAce wrote:

Bubber Jones wrote:
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 (Sorry, wrong thread.. )

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.