Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/31

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Subject: [Leica] Old time Leica prices
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue May 31 11:05:41 2005
 
And how much did you make each week? :-) I know that that same summer
photographers at the Bridgeport Telegram, in Bridgeport, the Newark of
Connecticut, made $60 per week and all the film they could steal. :-)


On 5/31/05 1:24 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:

> In the late 60's and early 70's, a black Leica from the 1930's era would
> have sold for around $30-50.  I was working in a camera store in Newark at
> the time.....
> 
> I remember lusting over a M2 in around 1965:  With Elmar lens and Leciavit,
> the total ( from memory) was around $600.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> 
> 
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