Re: PESO Reality check
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 weekend, I caved. Ordered a *ist DS on the drive back to Illinois. But $3,099! even for Ozzie $ at the time, that was pricey! Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: 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 waited 8 years and bought mine for $3000 less (PS Rob - contact me off list re that Panosaurus. I really need to get it to you.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Reality check
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 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 on that price. Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ +++ 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 weekend, I caved. Ordered a *ist DS on the drive back to Illinois. But $3,099! even for Ozzie $ at the time, that was pricey! Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: 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 waited 8 years and bought mine for $3000 less (PS Rob - contact me off list re that Panosaurus. I really need to get it to you.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Reality check
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 on that price. The introduction of the Aus 10% GST was actually a boon to camera equipment buyers as the 21% sales tax was eliminated but of course film processing cost rose, I guess that's why digital image capture caught on ;) -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Reality check
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 time, that was pricey! Regards, Bob S. On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Brian Walters apathy...@lyons-ryan.org wrote: 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 waited 8 years and bought mine for $3000 less (PS Rob - contact me off list re that Panosaurus. I really need to get it to you.) -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Reality check
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 DS on the drive back to Illinois. But $3,099! even for Ozzie $ at the time, that was pricey! Hi Bob, Well spotted, that was my old A*135/1.8, it was sold not long after I bought my APO Lanthar 125. I bought my *Ist D direct from the importers on a US price match deal but it still cost me about AU$2150 as I recall, they were shafting us badly back then, I don't think that they had heard of the Internet but I had. Cheers, -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
PESO Reality check
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, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: PESO Reality check
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 waited 8 years and bought mine for $3000 less (PS Rob - contact me off list re that Panosaurus. I really need to get it to you.) -- Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
