On 22 Jun 2002 at 23:35, Bob Walkden wrote: > It's impossible to rationalise classic camera prices, but I suppose > they're cheaper than Ferraris and aeroplanes. Here in London I see a > lot of Leicas at very high prices. There used to be a shop called > Museum Cameras which specialised in very rare cameras, particularly > Leicas, generally with an interesting history. They had the camera > bag, Nikon S and several lenses and other paraphernalia that George > Rodger, one of the founders of Magnum, used to own and used in Africa. > I can't remember the price of those, but it was high. They also had a > Leica used by Tazio Secchiaroli, 'the original paparazzo', which they > were offering for £65,000-, iirc, which is about one hundred thousand > US dollars.
Hi, At the Tamarkin web site the results of his classic camera auctions in NYC are available and in the last lot a Nikon SP sold at US$18,000: http://www.tamarkin.com/auction/springresults.htm#4 Not a particularly impressive or friendly shop from my personal experience. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - 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 .
