Finding the serial number
Mar 13, 2019 22:30:24 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
Eddieg wrote:
The serial number sticker is missing and I don't have the original box. I would think that it wold be embedded somewhere digitally in the camera. I purchased a T6 about a year ago and I'm looking for advice.
Some post processing programs, and shutter count programs show the serial number along with all the other data. My Nikon cameras do, someone knows if the Canon models do.
Mar 14, 2019 01:36:14 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
So what's it mean when the EXIF serial number doesn't match the number on the camera body?
Mar 14, 2019 04:50:34 #
wrangler5 wrote:
So what's it mean when the EXIF serial number doesn't match the number on the camera body?
That's scary. I have that problem with the lens, but not the body. I'm not sure what to tell you. Maybe someone else has an idea...as we wait.... ;)
Mar 14, 2019 10:03:47 #
olemikey
Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida
wrangler5 wrote:
So what's it mean when the EXIF serial number doesn't match the number on the camera body?
Perhaps it was repaired or something at some point, and a different bottom plate was put on (why, only the person who did it would know, in a large operation it could have simply been a screwup). Maybe CPU was replaced/or bottom plate. There may be another place inside where the serial number is stamped, but I can't answer. Worse case scenario would be some sort of fraud..... If you bought it used, the answer could come from that. I started checking the EXIF data serial number on bodies I buy used several years back, no issues to date.
Mar 15, 2019 00:17:08 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
I did a general search on the net and found a discussion of this issue. The longest comment was from a guy with a Nikon whose EXIF serial # didn't match the camera body after it came back from Nikon repair. (The one he sent in was very well used, and he said the one that came back just looked and felt like a different camera, with tighter dials and missing blemishes that wouldn't have been part of the repairs he got.) He was able to contact the repair facility technical people and was told that they sometimes just replace a body rather than repair it, but they DO switch the serial number tag on the body as part of some record keeping process. They also have the ability to reset the internal chip so the EXIF data matches the new (old) body serial number, but apparently forgot to do so in this guy's particular case.
I'm still a bit concerned about mismatched numbers being a sign of a stolen camera, though.
I'm still a bit concerned about mismatched numbers being a sign of a stolen camera, though.
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