SEL1670Z: Serial number

[ygoe]

I've found posts around the internet that the serial number sticker may come off of the lens after a short time. I'm wondering whether the serial number of the lens is also attached to it more permanently, like engraved.

 

There is an unidentified number engraved at the front of it, it's 8 digits (the serial on the sticker and the box has 7 digits) and completely different. Google doesn't find that number so it's probably not a model number. Does my lens have two serial numbers? Is that because of the Zeiss branding? (The SEL1018 doesn't have a number at the front, just the sticker at the bottom.) Some Amazon images show "00000000" at that place, maybe it's a rendered image. Other web images have smaller numbers than mine ("455xxxxx").

 

My Canon lenses (and others) only have the number engraved.

[michelb]

The serial number on the lens barrel (close to the mount) is the Sony serial number

 

Zeiss lenses have an additional serial number at the front edge of the lens.

 

Marketing Hype ?

[Gilgenberg]

i had big problems with the serial number because the sticker was lost and a warranty repair from my FE 35F28Z could not done fast because of that 

 

good to write down the serial number or hold the box 

 

if you buy a lens used take care the serial number is still available  

 

the engraved number in the lens barrel is not the serial number

[VTC]

I think I remember the lens serial number showing in the EXIF data of the files created.

[Gilgenberg]

I think I remember the lens serial number showing in the EXIF data of the files created.

 

how?

 

i could not extract the serial number from the exif data

 

would be nice to know how to do this

[ygoe]

How can I read that data from the EXIF data? I can't find it in IrfanView or Lightroom. Photoshop won't open these files, it's too old and there are no upgrades available anymore. Affinity Photo doesn't show any file properties.

[PeterWa]

in irfanview simply push the "E" button

[ygoe]

There's no serial number in the EXIF data visible to IrfanView. I know the E hotkey. Canon cameras have a camera serial number, but Sony doesn't have anything. Maybe it's hidden in the MakerNote and IrfanView can't decode it.

[Username]

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if you buy a lens used take care the serial number is still available  

 

the engraved number in the lens barrel is not the serial number

  

The other number is, IIRC, the Sony part number for the

fully assembled lens.