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Subject: [Leica] Question 2 this evening: historical prices
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:52:05 -0500
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Vince,

I have the November 1955 Leica Product Directory.

Catalog    Code
Number    Word                       Item 
Retail Price
******    ******    ********************************        ********
10,150    IGEMO    Leica M 3 without lens 
$288.00
10,155    IMARO    Leica M 3 with 50mm Elmar f/3.5 lens 
348.00
10,161    ISUMO    Leica M 3 with 50mm Summicron f/2 lens             447.00
10,165    ISAIO      Leica M 3 with 50mm Summarit f/1.5 lens 
468.00

Ask about any other items from this catalog that you might like for your 
collection, and I will be happy to look them up for you.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vince Passaro" <passaro.vince at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Question 2 this evening: historical prices


> Doug many thanks this has been helpful. I assume you're working off your 
> own
> memory/records of your purchases? What does IIRC mean? And NOS?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Doug Herr 
> <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>wrote:
>
>> Vince Passaro wrote:
>>
>> >I'm looking for actual at-the-time they were marketed dollar prices for
>> >certain historical cameras, for a couple of academic reasons. Does 
>> >anyone
>> >have a source/sources? For instance I would love to know M3 prices 
>> >through
>> >the 1950s; Nikon F prices 1959 to, say, 1980; Leica prices in the 1970s.
>> >
>> >Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
>>
>> IIRC a Nikon F in 1972 or so was US$310.  NOS Leicaflex SL in 1979 was
>> US$510.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
>>
>>
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