Nobody paid list. Figure street price was 40-60% less depending on the item.
At 09:18 PM 2/20/2002 -0500, you wrote: >What an ebay RUSH I just had.... > >I enabled myself tonight to buy an >kewl PENTAX screwmount lens, 135-600mm >F6.7 Super-Multi-Coated-Zoom Takumar: > >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1332161161 > >This monster will be good for the horse races where >I usually used a 400 or 500mm. The wide zoom range >of over 4:1 should be very useful. > >I sniper bid with about 15 seconds left on the auction >and got it for a "good" price ($995). This is the most expensive >lens I've ever bought so I had to think about it quite >a bit before bidding. It's not very fast and isnt >very balanced on a tripod, but I'll be using it with monopod. >I may build a special bracket for tripod use if needed. > >Here was my line of "enablement" thinking: >I looked this lens up in a 1974 Pentax brochure I have >and found the list price to be $2000 ! But remember >that was $2000 in 1974. I then went to a consumer price >index website that has a calculator for converting the >value of the dollar between different years: > >http://minneapolisfed.org/economy/calc/cpihome.html > > As it turns >out $2000 list in 1974 was equal to $7322 list in year 2002. This was >one EXPENSIVE lens in its day, which accounts for its rarity. >I cant wait to take it out for a test drive... > >I noticed some other very high list prices on Pentax equipment >in 1974. For example an ESII w/50mm F1.4 SMCT listed for >$650. Thats equivilant to $2379 today , The ESII >was an extremely expensive camera in its day too. >How in the hell did they sell so many with such >high ( at least list ) prices. It would be interesting >to find out what the street prices were back then, >does anyone have some old "popular photography" magazines >from the middle seventies???? > >JCO >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
