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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Old Prices
From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:17:50 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Thanks, Marshall....I don't know what an orderly would make today, maybe 
$25K?.....So I guess the moral is we all should have bought Nikons!!!!
(mint black dial S2 will bring about the same as M3/50 today--but it 
cost less!--pity the Canon customer, tho....they're still not worth much!)
Walt


On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:37:39 -0400 Marshall Hunt <huntmc2@fuse.net> 
wrote:
> 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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