Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Old Prices
From: Marshall Hunt <huntmc2@fuse.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:37:39 -0400
References: <SIMEON.10110181351.J@sova-walt.unt.edu>

In 1955 I was working as a hospital orderly for $3,000 per
year.  Dowlings would sell a M3 with 50/2 Summicron for
$447.  A Contax IIA with 50/2 Sonnar was $345. Your
Leicameter was $30.   A Canon IVS2 with 50/1.8 Serenar was
$284 from Peerless, and a Nikon about the same. AND a copy
of Popular Photography, with Elsa Martinelli on the cover, 
was $0.35!

Walter S Delesandri wrote:
> 
> Anybody know/remember what an average staffer/adjunct at a university made in
> 1954?.....or what did the average family sedan cost? (I know they didn't have
> A/C or stereo, but we can subtract $1K from a new mid priced sedan and calculate!)
> Also, what was the "street" price of an M3/50 summicron?--I seem to recall folks
> talking about $300> or so...
> 
> Walt
> 
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:50:17 -0700 thomas schofield
> <tdschofield@msn.com> wrote:
> > Didn't someone, possibly Erwin, calculate that a modern M6 is 40% less
> > expensive than an M3 was in 1954, adjusted for inflation.  And that probably
> > was not even considering Leica Days discounts and the present rebates!
> >
> > Tom Schofield
> >
> > >the changes are so slight and every one of them was to SAVE money,
> > >the cameras should cost much LESS to make today, in adjusted >dollars....
> >
> >
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> (Re: [Leica] Old Prices)
In reply to: Message from Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu> (Re: RE: [Leica] M camera parts)