- 1). Open the film door of your Canon A1 camera body. Hold the camera under a bright light to find a code written on the interior of the camera. This code will be in black letters, written on the black metal of the film chamber, and should contain letters and numbers.
- 2). Use the first letter of the code to determine the year of the camera's manufacture. "S" represents 1978, "R" represents 1979, all the way through "Z" for 1985. This system can be continued when dating Canon cameras produced earlier or later, with "A" standing for both 1960 and 1986, and continuing upwards in this pattern.
- 3). Check the next digit in the code, which should be represent the month. The months are represented as "1" for January, "2" for February, with "12" standing for December. Sometimes there is a zero in front of the single digit month numbers, and sometimes there is not. The final digits are irrelevant for dating purposes, but there should be two remaining digits and a letter which determines the factory of production.
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