The MyCard, credit card-sized calculator, is introduced. Canon announces laser beam facsimile machines. Practical tests of a still video camcorder are conducted at the Los Angeles Olympic Games. The digital laser copying machine system NP is introduced. The PV14 x The BJ, the world's first inkjet printer using Bubble Jet technology, is introduced. The Canofile electronic filing system is introduced. The EZPS electronic editing and printing system is introduced.
The Canovision 8 VM-E1, an 8 mm video camcorder, is introduced. The FC-3 and FC-5 portable personal-use copying machines are introduced. The CLC-1, a digital full-color copying machine, is introduced. EOS In part, the numbers might be shifted by a month or so. Again, please send us any discrepancies you find. Special thanks go out to the friends of the site that played a role in the development and maintenance of this chart. Until phasing out the practice starting in , Canon included a date code beside the rear lens element of many but not all lenses note that some manufactured lenses still received this date code.
The date code as seen below is in the form of " UR ". This code is also present on some other Canon products including camera bodies. The first letter, "U" , indicates that the lens was made in Canon's Utsunomiya, Japan factory.
Prior to , this letter is moved to the last position of the date code. The second letter, "R" , is a year code that indicates the year of manufacture.
Canon increments this letter each year starting with A in and prior to that, A in without the leading factory code. Here is a table to make things simple:. All our articles and reviews are free. Canon lens date codes and EF lens chronology Lens manufacturing codes Some older Canon lenses are stamped with a manufacturing code consisting of two letters and typically four numbers. The first two digits are a date code, indicating month and year of manufacture.
Canon EF lens chronology When was a lens announced, and is it still a current model? EFmm F EF-S mm f3. Welcome to EFLens. Read all of the reviews, see detailed specifications and check the price.
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