Serial Numbers Lens and Camera

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Sorry did a quick search but could not find anything, apart from getting the serial number of the body and lens from the actual item is there any other way like from the exif data. On flickr I think I have found the body serial, but not for the lens.

All items are Nikon.

Thank you
 
Not that I am aware off. Definitely not lens wise, think it would be a costly excersise programming each serial number in to a lens.

Body probably does it though, never really checked.
 
if you have an apple macbook all the info in in the exif file when you open it up
camera and lens serial number
 
holty said:
if you have an apple macbook all the info in in the exif file when you open it up
camera and lens serial number
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Thank you, will check it out.
 
JJ! said:
Not that I am aware off. Definitely not lens wise, think it would be a costly excersise programming each serial number in to a lens.

Body probably does it though, never really checked.
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Found the body one on Flickr, being lazy with the lens ones.

Thank you
 
Just check the Mac Inspector and it only shows the serial for the body.
 
It might be make specific but Canon lens serial numbers are certainly stored in the metadata.

Looking at pictures on something like Flikr what is on the metadata depends on both what the photographer included in the file he uploaded and also on what Flikr retains.
 
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JJ! said:
Not that I am aware off. Definitely not lens wise, think it would be a costly excersise programming each serial number in to a lens.
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In which case, how can you microadjust for individual lenses?
 
DemiLion said:
In which case, how can you microadjust for individual lenses?
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Use one of these and fine tune on your camera that is if your camera has fine tune setup in the memory

each lens is recorded within the camera memory ad auto selects which ever lens is used

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Canon f1.8 said:
Just checked an image from mine and it deffo shows both body and lens serial


https://www.irista.com/gallery/kdactvdt71bf
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Does that correspond to the serial number printed on the lens or is it an internal serial number? (the ExifTool docs suggest the latter for Canon).

As far as I can tell, Nikon doesn't write lens serial numbers to metadata, just lens IDs (which are the same for every lens of the same model).
 
realspeed said:
Use one of these and fine tune on your camera that is if your camera has fine tune setup in the memory

each lens is recorded within the camera memory ad auto selects which ever lens is used
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Whoosh. Straight over the head!
 
DemiLion said:
Whoosh. Straight over the head!
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you asked about micro adjustment but you failed to mention which camera you are trying to do micro adjustment on. Presumably you have a pro DSLR camera such as the Nikon D850
 
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realspeed said:
you asked about micro adjustment but you failed to mention which camera you are trying to do micro adjustment on. Presumably you have a pro DSLR camera such as the Nikon D850
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Demilion's point was that the camera that has the micro adjustment needs to be able to tell which lens is attached. That is via the serial number - at least it is on my EOS 80D.
 
The micro adjustment I believe on Nikon is done via the ID number assigned to the lens. And all lenses that are the same have the same ID number I think. Which can become a pain if you own a couple of copies. I could be wrong but that’s what I read a while back!

This is also the same on Tamron lenses on Nikon. This caused issues with the older Tamron 24-70 and 70-200 as Tamron assigned them the same ID number which meant if you fined tuned the 24-70 at say +4 it would put the 70-200 at +4. Then if you adjusted the 70-200 to 0 it would make the 24-70 0!

Anyway, that’s not the issue - I still don’t think Nikon serials show up - only what you see printed on the lens itself.

If you own the lens why do you need to find out the serial from the data? Just curious!
 
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JJ! said:
Not that I am aware off. Definitely not lens wise, think it would be a costly excersise programming each serial number in to a lens.

Body probably does it though, never really checked.
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The production line has a facility to print the number on the lens. Therefore the production line IT system must know the serial number. As the lens electrics must be connected to the production line for testing, it will cost nothing to upload the serial number at the same time. That doesn't mean they do so, but there is no cost implication.
 
Google search seems to think that no Nikon lenses will show serial number even through raw files, just the ID number. You may be out of luck.

It would be a good idea to have it on there though - would certainly be a way of finding stolen gear.
 
JJ! said:
The micro adjustment I believe on Nikon is done via the ID number assigned to the lens. And all lenses that are the same have the same ID number I think. Which can become a pain if you own a couple of copies. I could be wrong but that’s what I read a while back!

This is also the same on Tamron lenses on Nikon. This caused issues with the older Tamron 24-70 and 70-200 as Tamron assigned them the same ID number which meant if you fined tuned the 24-70 at say +4 it would put the 70-200 at +4. Then if you adjusted the 70-200 to 0 it would make the 24-70 0!

Anyway, that’s not the issue - I still don’t think Nikon serials show up - only what you see printed on the lens itself.

If you own the lens why do you need to find out the serial from the data? Just curious!
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Just being lazy, that is what I have now done. What to create a spreadsheet with all the kit I have and serial as I want to get it all insured.

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Don't want to add it to my contents insurance and don't like getting expensive travel cover when I go away which is way I want separate insurance.


Thank you
 
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On my 5D4 the camera shows the serial number of the lens in the MA menu but in LR EXIF only appears to show the camera serial number.
 
realspeed said:
you asked about micro adjustment but you failed to mention which camera you are trying to do micro adjustment on. Presumably you have a pro DSLR camera such as the Nikon D850
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No I didn't. I asked how cameras ID individual lenses. Which is via the serial number in the EXIF. Whether you can extract that info is a different matter.
 
Nikon does not store lens serial number in the EXIF. Instead every CPU lens (and TC) transmits a lens ID number. The ID number is unique to the lens model, but not to the lens itself.

Because of this, if you had two of the same model lenses you could not fine tune them on the same camera body. If the lens with a TC is attached it is recognized as such and can be fine tuned as a separate lens/combination.
I.e. I can have 4 fine tune settings for the 400mm f/2.8 G VR. One plain and one for it with each of the 3 TC's attached. But I cannot have two entires for the 400/2.8 G VR w/o TC, even if it's two separate lenses.
 
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On the latest Canons you can enter 40 lenses into the MA whether they are different lenses or not. The exception is lenses with an * in front of the serial number when you can only enter one lens of that same model.
 
Gaz J said:
On the latest Canons you can enter 40 lenses into the MA whether they are different lenses or not. The exception is lenses with an * in front of the serial number when you can only enter one lens of that same model.
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Yeah, and most Canon's will let you save multiple values for the different zoom positions, Nikon's don't.
 
Retune said:
Does that correspond to the serial number printed on the lens or is it an internal serial number? (the ExifTool docs suggest the latter for Canon).

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It seems not, my number on the lens has more digits.
 
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