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Subject: [Leica] Old Time Miranda Prices...Oops
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue May 31 14:10:23 2005

Wasn't there a Phil Ochs song about Miranda?


On 5/31/05 4:50 PM, "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> wrote:

> I of course meant 1964 instead of 1967...by 1967, the Miranda G was on
> the market.
> 
> Miranda F, the poor man's Nikon...my first SLR.  In 1967 a Miranda F
> with a 50mm f/1.9 Soligor cost less than a hundred bucks, a bargain even
> then.  Interchangeable viewfinder and screen, a good line of lenses, as
> quiet as an SLR was forty years ago...nice camera.
> 
> Buzz Hausner
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Frank Filippone
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:50 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Old time Leica prices
> 
> I think it was $1.25 an hour...... maybe $1.35!  Summer kid help
> prices....
> And stealing film was not approved of... I spent most of my money on my
> Miranda SLR.  Remember them?
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
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