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Modern cameras are good value

I read with interest your items regarding the cost of equipment, today compared with yesteryear. I recently acquired a 1966 copy of the Wallace Heaton catalogue – a well-known dealership it was swallowed up by the Dixons group. In the mid 1960’s my parents purchased for my 21st birthday a Pentax S1A, a slightly watered-down version of the SV. According to the catalogue it was priced at £77 3s 4d which, if you run it through a price converter, relates to £1,570 in