Old Newspapers :)

I was cleaning a storage and I found under the old carpets some newspapers from 82 :)
Here are some pictures :

And two more :)

great find.. those camera bodies look awfully similar.

I can't get over a shop being called "London Drugs".... (!)

I love old gear ads though, although camera stuff doesn't personally do it for me (as I don't really have much history with cameras).

Ahhh the gold old days! Thanks for sharing something fun and whimsical!

Haha, my dad still has his camera from the late 80s. :p

Let's see the inflation adjusted price of Canon AE-1 with 50mm f/1.8 lens. In 1982, the price was $338.88. The average inflation rate is approximately 3% per year in long term. The advertisement is 27 years old. Inflation adjusted price = $338.88 x 1.03^27 = $752.75. This price is equivalent to nowadays entry-level DSLR price.

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Originally Posted by Ben H

I can't get over a shop being called "London Drugs".... (!)

I love old gear ads though, although camera stuff doesn't personally do it for me (as I don't really have much history with cameras).

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haha - theres actually tons of 'london drugs' over here - almost every town has got one! its a multi-purpose store...