The inflation-adjusted price for 1977-era camera equipment? I have a receipt!
I'm not a big fan of browsing for used camera equipment in antique stores. I can sum up the main reason why as being: " you'll never see a sign outside of an antique store that says, low, low prices! " But still, over the years I have managed to find a few things that I hadn't already owned in my collection from a dwindling number of these shops. Mostly I find plenty of crappy plastic Kodak and Polaroid cameras in antique stores. The "good" photo stuff I've uncovered always seems to be in need of critical repair or missing an important part that renders its use impossible, but the sticker price asked for is, of course, always too high. There have been a small number of successful surprises, too. Here's one of them, but for a different, unforeseen reason. After packing my Canon M5 body and a couple lenses into a bag, I got in my car and drove off for a few hours of summertime wander-driving and perhaps some image-making. I live in a small(ish) to...
