by mikedk » Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:45 am
Just out of curiosity, not long after buying my Rollei 35RF which has a R000xxx serial number, I wrote to Rollei to find out just how many of these cameras they produced. I received a courteous reply from their Manager Service & Logistics. The reply was "Thank you for your enquiry. Unfortunately, I cannot find out the exact figure any more. The approximate quantity is 200 units." Being just a little surprised at the low figure, I replied asking was the number 200 a typing error; perhaps it was 2000. The answer was "For sure we did not reach the 2000 units by far. Unfortunately, after the restructuring of our company, there are no exact figures to be found any longer. Concerning the serial number of your camera body I know from experience, that some products were not given numbers starting from one but with some code." I still can't get my head such a low figure. Anyone any comments?