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Re: [OM] Do World prices vary on NEW OM gear???

Subject: Re: [OM] Do World prices vary on NEW OM gear???
From: "Alexander Fisher Wilson" <a.f.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:04:42 +0000
The UK magazine ³ Practical Photography² publishes a ³ Data Guide² on ³ 
Current Lenses². Some of the prices give for new Olympus lenses are :

90mm f2 macro  £1200  ($ 1920)
180mm f2       £7700  ($ 12320)
350mm f2.8     £11000 ($ 17600)
21mm f2        £1300  ($2080)
35 - 80 f2.8   £1700) ($2720)

Thank goodness for the second hand market !!

Alex Wilson.


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>From: ALEXSCIFI@xxxxxxx
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [OM] Do World prices vary on NEW OM gear???
>Date: Sun, Aug 22, 1999, 11:54 am
>

> Has anyone noticed significant variations in the prices (and even
> availability) of brand new OM gear??? For example, it is known that Mamiya
> USA prices it's stuff at about TWICE the Japanese or Hong Kong price level!!!
> In the second case, the classic Ricoh GR1 is no longer available new in the
> US, but can apparently still be had in England.
>
> Alex
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