Biking is my favourite next, to my Pentax cameras, so I combine
both. At 53, it keeps me in shape and is something I've done
since my teens (Time Trials twice a week and biking weekends
to Youth Hostels around Scotland from my home in Glenrothes,
Fife).
Now I'm drugged by the beautiful mountains and coastline around
BC Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island.
James
>--- Original Message ---
>From: Frank Theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: 7/25/01 2:13:17 PM
>
>Hi, James,
>
>Update on my post from this morning. I had a few minutes to
kill downtown (slow
>day in bike courier world), and I popped into Henry's, to check
on prices for my
>own purposes, as well as to give you an update.
>
>Seems that I was low-balling you this morning. The cheapest
Spotmatic they had, an
>SP, was $150, with lens. The cheapest SPII was $250, and the
most expensive SPII
>was $350 (!!). They also had an F, for around $300 or so, if
I'm not mistaken.
>
>Also walked by a few pawn shops in the area, and one had an
SP in the window for
>about $200.
>
>Wow, have prices gone up that much in the last year or so?!?
>
>Anyway, FYI...
>
>regards,
>frank
>
>Frank Theriault wrote:
>
>> FWIW, here in TO, at the major shops (Henry's and the recently
demised Alt),
>> SP's and SP500 and 1000's go for $100 to $125, and SP II's
for maybe $125 to
>> $150, with a 50 or 55 mm lens. Some shops, like my repair
shop, Komineks, sell
>> them for up to $200.
>>
>> I don't think yours is outlandish, but it could probably be
gotten for less.
>> But, hey, if it's in A1 condition...
>>
>> BTW, sorry to hear about your bike. Bummer.
>>
>> regards,
>> frank
>>
>
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The pessimist fears
>it is true." -J. Robert
>Oppenheimer
>
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