I don't know about list price, but I paid £221 (pounds sterling) for a new
OM-2 chrome body in 1979.
Alan Wood
http://www.alanwood.net (Unicode, special characters, pesticide names)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pearce [SMTP:bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 2:47 PM
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> Subject: [OM] Seems pricey...
>
> "List price on an OM-1n body only was $350 chrome $380 black. OM-2n was
> $430
> chrome, and $460 black. The OM-4 listed at $685 for body only. A 50 f/1.8
> would add $100 to the list price."
>
> Wow! I know I'm getting into old fart territory here, but I remember the
> seventies as being cheaper than that, even with rampant inflation. I would
> think that after correcting for 25 years of inflation, those list prices
> wouldn't be too far off from the last quoted lists of the OM3/4T's.
> Sobering
> thoughts!
>
> Bill Pearce
>
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