Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/12

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From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 23:07:45 -0400

At 09:46 PM 5/12/98 -0400, Dan C wrote:
>Referring to the Kodak Ektra?  Didn't it cost something like $750 in 1949
>dollars, give or take a few hundred?  Probably the reason for its demise.

1941 dollars, perhaps, but not 1949.  The Ektra was produced Prewar.  Only
a VERY small run (1?  5?) of the Ektra II was made Postwar, and none of
these were sold commercially.

Marc


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