HELP: Lense stolen, need serial number from raw or jpg file

[dcanthony]

Recently I was at a public event, while distracting taking video somebody snatched my camera bag containing my Canon EF 70-200 F2.8.  Needless to say I'm not happy about this.  I bought this lens on eBay so I don't have the original box meaning I don't have the serial number.  I'll have a much better shot recovering the lens if I can provide a serial number. The police say with a serial number they can often locate items in pawn shops.

Is there a way to extract the lens serial number from a raw or jpg file using the ExifTool?

Also, the thieve got my 1.4 Extender.  I don't know if the extender has a serial number, but if it does I'd appreciate help also getting that information too. Thanks so much.

[Hayo Baan]

For some camera models I recall having seen a lens serial number in the file. If your camera records it, you should be able to find it with exiftool. Just run exiftool on an image produced with the lens you're after and look through the output for a serial number (that is not the camera's serial number). Use e.g. exiftool -a -G0:1 for some more details.

[dcanthony]

Unfortunately, the lens serial number is reported as:  [EXIF:ExifIFD]  Lens Serial Number              : 0000000000
I can see the camera serial number.

There is another serial number listed as:  [MakerNotes:Canon] Internal Serial Number       : UC0354331

This is different from what is listed in:  [EXIF:ExifIFD]  Serial Number 
But, I'm assuming this is some other kind of serial number for the camera body.

Does anybody know what the "Internal Serial Number" is.

I'm afraid the Internal Serial Number is not available to me.

[Phil Harvey]

This is just a guess, but the internal serial number could be the serial number of the motherboard or some component of the camera.

- Phil