Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-03 Thread John Sessoms
FWIW, I don't think those prices were in US dollars probably include a VAT. From: Bob Sullivan Rob, That's one of those expensive A* lenses in the photo as well. Was it the A*85/1.4 or the A*135/1.8? I waited a while before I bought a digital, but when I got to the Grandfather Mountain

Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-03 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com: FWIW, I don't think those prices were in US dollars probably include a VAT. Yes - that's $A, and back when the *istD was released, the $A was equivalent to about 0.6$US. These days 1$A buys about 1.05$US. A 10% Goods and Services tax (GST) was

Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-03 Thread Rob Studdert
On 4 February 2013 08:49, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: A 10% Goods and Services tax (GST) was introduced in Australia in 2000 so that price probably did include a VAT. However, the GST replaced other wholesale taxes so it's not clear how much influence the GST would have had

Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-02 Thread Bob Sullivan
Rob, That's one of those expensive A* lenses in the photo as well. Was it the A*85/1.4 or the A*135/1.8? I waited a while before I bought a digital, but when I got to the Grandfather Mountain weekend, I caved. Ordered a *ist DS on the drive back to Illinois. But $3,099! even for Ozzie $ at the

Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-02 Thread Rob Studdert
On 3 February 2013 05:53, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Rob, That's one of those expensive A* lenses in the photo as well. Was it the A*85/1.4 or the A*135/1.8? I waited a while before I bought a digital, but when I got to the Grandfather Mountain weekend, I caved. Ordered a *ist

PESO Reality check

2013-02-01 Thread Rob Studdert
HI Team, Looking through my archives the other day this caught my eye, shot back in Jan 2004 using my newish *ist D, not overly artistic but... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9304908/temp/IMGP00605.jpg Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay,

Re: PESO Reality check

2013-02-01 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting Rob Studdert distudio.p...@gmail.com: HI Team, Looking through my archives the other day this caught my eye, shot back in Jan 2004 using my newish *ist D, not overly artistic but... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9304908/temp/IMGP00605.jpg Ouch! It's a wonder they ever sold any. I