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Re: [OM] cost of Om-1n when new?

Subject: Re: [OM] cost of Om-1n when new?
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 15:39:46 +0100
Fieder

My OM1MD was a black one, with a 50/1.8 (DM600 ohne MwST); strange
how that was more expensive than the "chrome" version?

The UKP was worth about DM4.50 in 1979.  In 1980 I managed to buy a
little VW Scirrocco Sport 1500 for UKP3,000/DM15,000, so the rate had
gone up to 1/DM5.00 then, if only for a short while.  Oh, halcyon
days!

The US$ was about 1.7 to the UKP if I remember correctly.

Do students at a Stuttgart university get discounts on Mercedes by the way?
:>).

Chris

At 12:13 +0200 31/3/02, frieder.faig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I´ve found a advertisment in a german 1979 foto magazine.
Would be very interesting to have more new price information.

        1979
OM1 N (cr)      487     DM
OM1 N(bl)       527     DM

OM10    427     DM

OM 2 N (cr)     897     DM
OM 2 N (bl)     937     DM

XA      398     DM
XA+A11  468     DM

OM 2 was pretty expensive back then. There were only really a few
more expensive cameras offerd in the tableau.

Do anybody remember the exchange rates? There have been
a lot of changes in the last 3 decades between yen / $ / DM.

Frieder Faig

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