bmattock
Veteran
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Nikon Bob
Guest
I bet that price in 1958 would have made you gag.
Bob
Bob
bmattock
Veteran
About $4,500 USD in today's dollars, if my math is right. Yeah. Gagging.
Heck, it's actually cheaper now.
Zunow 1.1 50mm on eBay
Tuolumne
Veteran
Is it any good?
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visiondr
cyclic iconoclast
Expensive, yeah; but heck, you can shoot "Night Club Floor Shows".
bmattock
Veteran
Good is relative - it's fast. If speed is what you need, then quality comes second. Better the fuzzy image you can sell than the non-existing image you can't.
iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
According to a couple of online inflation calculators, it's equivalent to approx. $3200 - $3300 U.S. I've never heard of Zunow, anyway.
furcafe
Veteran
iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
Thanks - Immediately after I posted that, I found that article plus the camerapedia entry
furcafe
Veteran
No problem. IIRC, there's 1 person on the RFF who actually has the Zunow SLR.
Thanks - Immediately after I posted that, I found that article plus the camerapedia entry
mhv
Registered User
Actually, wasn't 450$ the price of a new Leica M3 or Nikon SP when they were still new? Surely not cheap, but at least comparable to something else.
Al Kaplan
Veteran
I can remember that when the M4 first came out the body listed for $288, the same as the M3. An M2 without a self timer was $200 and $250 got you an M2 with a self timer. When the M2R was released it came with a 50mm Dual-Range Summicron for about about $375. The Nikon F and the SP were both the same frice, $329 with an f/2 Nikkor and $375 with an f/1.4. The original f/1.4 for the F was a 58mm while the S version was 50mm. Nikon also had a 50mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor in S mount, and of course all the S lenses were available to correctly focus with Contax cameras as well as being available in LTM.
