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Subject: [Leica] Question 2 this evening: historical prices
From: passaro.vince at gmail.com (Vince Passaro)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:31:20 -0400
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Doug many thanks this has been helpful. I assume you're working off your own
memory/records of your purchases? What does IIRC mean? And NOS?


On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> Vince Passaro wrote:
>
> >I'm looking for actual at-the-time they were marketed dollar prices for
> >certain historical cameras, for a couple of academic reasons. Does anyone
> >have a source/sources? For instance I would love to know M3 prices through
> >the 1950s; Nikon F prices 1959 to, say, 1980; Leica prices in the 1970s.
> >
> >Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
>
> IIRC a Nikon F in 1972 or so was US$310.  NOS Leicaflex SL in 1979 was
> US$510.
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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