September 29th 12, 06:47 AM
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A Blast from the Past
On 9/28/2012 10:50 PM, Robert Coe wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:58:51 -0700, Savageduck
wrote:
: On 2012-09-24 20:45:49 -0700, PeterN said:
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: On 9/24/2012 9:49 PM, Savageduck wrote:
: On 2012-09-24 18:36:01 -0700, PeterN said:
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: On 9/24/2012 4:44 PM, Mort wrote:
: Russell D. wrote:
: This is from a couple years before I became really interested in
: photography but I could spend hours pouring over stuff like this when I
: was a kid.
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: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/05/seer...atalogue-1961/
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: Hi,
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: Thanks for the memories. That Nikon SP, with 50 mm. F.1.4 lens and
: leather case, was $150.- in the European Post Exchanges of the U.S.
: Army.
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: Times sure have changed.
:
: Regards,
:
: Mort Linder
:
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: Not really, if you use my hot dog index.
: In 1961 a hot dog at Nathans was no more than twenty five cents. It
: had just gone up from fifteen cents.
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: Damn! ...and I still remember 19.9 ¢/gal gas at a Hess station in
: Upstate NY in 1971. :-(
:
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: Gas prices have exceeded the hot dog index, as have car prices. :-(
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: In 1969 You could have had a Shelby 427 Cobra for $4200. Today the same
: car if intact, would start at $200K+. With a good provenance you will
: be looking at $1M+.
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: See what your $4200 buys you today!
A D800 and a D800e.
Bob
do YOU MEAN "OR"?
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Peter
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