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PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 3:53 pm    Post subject: Some 1978 ads Reply with quote











I have lots more from '78, will dribble them in...


PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Nesster~ please post all you have Razz


PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you - click the 'brochures and manuals' link in my sig. Wink


PostPosted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy thanks - Fascinating...


PostPosted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 1:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nicely dug up!

Wow - the spectacular Minolta 50 1.2 was so cheap back then!

Why are the Konica Hexanon 50's so conspicuously missing from the line-up? Were they freebies with the cameras?? Surely the 57mm 1.2 wasn't a kit lens!


PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 9:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Larnus wrote:
Wow - the spectacular Minolta 50 1.2 was so cheap back then!

If you consider what you were paid per month in 1978,
was it still cheap?


PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

the minolta 50/1.2 is cca $530 in todays money - that is less money that you would pay for Nikon AiS 50/1.2 (only MF 50/1.2 lens available new) and MUCH less than modern 50/1.2, because there is only Canon L available

true is that the nikon 50/1.2 was about $400 just few years ago when it was still in manufacture


PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

on the theme...

found these pages in the camera bag from an olympus set I bought a few months ago. Ah think ah recognise the ad style . Amateur Photographer? There used tae be a pull-out ad section in the mag - topically - it may even have been Jessops!. This must be mid-eighties (Minolta X300 came out around '84-'85).

Check out the price on the PRAKTICA outfit...


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PostPosted: Fri Mar 07, 2014 9:28 am    Post subject: My first 'Good Camera' in 'AP' magazine Reply with quote

Amateur Photographer Magazine June 10th 1953

Selfix ad by pentaxpete, on Flickr

The Ensign Selfix 16/20 model II with 75mm f3.5 Ross Xpres lens was my first 'Good camera' paid off at 5 shillings a week hire purchase!
I got it when I was at East Ham Grammar School and there was a member of the School Photo-Soc with one -- he got very good results-- I think I was sold a 'Friday Night camera' as I struggled to get really sharp results even with camera on tripod or with flash.
many years later I have been given TWO Model I with the 75mm f4.5 ENSAR lenses and they are SHARPER especially at full aperture than the Xpres I had ( SOLD Model II for £ 10-00 to a Camera Club friend) I used the Selfix with flash BULBS but the Epsilon shutter needed a special adapter to fit the standard 3mm co-axial flash plug which is now universal .