Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 9 Jan 98 at 9:13, ted grant wrote: > re. auxiliary finders costs: > > The Russian finder ($140) -- The Bower finder ($200) -- > The Contax G finder ($165) -- The Leica (plastic) finder ($300) > > The older metal Leitz finder ridiculously expensive ($400+). > > In the good old days :) the metal Leica finder cost $90.00 and the > 21mm lens $381.00 dollars. Cdn. Just thought I'd make your day. :) Yabbut in the good old days people got paid smaller numbers of dollars. Inflation. In fact, the Leitz metal finder doesn't cost much more in constant dollars than it did then, and the other ones are downright cheap. CDN$90 in 1967 is about US$391 today.