Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin Howard <marho@ikp.liu.se> wrote in part: > For those of us living in Sweden, England is currently expensive, so I > shopping was limited: Certainly no camera gear. But the best bits were > walking around all day with an M3, 50mm and Tri-X and just enjoying > every second of it. Now it's into the bathroom for loading the tanks and > remodelling of the kitchen to develop the film! Going from a sales tax / VAT environment of 25% [?] to one of 17% that tells me that England must indeed be expensive! My experience in recent years is that on average it takes 1 GBP in the UK to buy what costs 1 Cdn$ in Canada .... and Canada is expensive compared to the US. jh