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Project Jenny KLIK - 1st Inf Di v Women in Vietnam RELATED-- To AFVN To Saigon To Vietnam Further Afield Index
From: Tim Bodle
Date: March 15, 2014
Subject: Ever Buy a Japanese Camera in Vietnam?
I was in Japan for 2 years before I went to Vietnam. I did load up on camera equipment and stereos. I took it all home when I was on leave. So I got some more camera and stereo stuff while I was in Saigon. Needless to say I had a full suite of Nikon gear. After being married several years and kids later I sold all of it to help pay the bills. I had taken plenty of pics of the kids by then.
The wife just bought me a DSLR for my birthday and told me to get with it. The big vacation is coming up and she wants pictures!
From: Brian Wickham
Date: March 14, 2014
Subject: Ever Buy a Japanese Camera in Vietnam?
I bought a Minolta SRT-101with 50mm f1.4 lens for $125 in Oct 1968 at that little PX store that was inside MACV HQ.
Brian Wickham
From: Tim Bodle
Date: March 14, 2014
Subject: Ever Buy a Japanese Camera in Vietnam?
The picture [on the website above] of the street stand with the Industry Hall within a block is interesting being so close to the Hiroshima blast site. Yet, I believe, when one visits the blast site at the White Sands test site, visitors are not allowed to take any sand/glass souvenirs. What kind of residual radiation was there at White Sands that wasn't in Japan? Does the question make sense?
From: Mike McNally
Date: March 14, 2014
Subject: Ever Buy a Japanese Camera in Vietnam?
Chances are you bought a Japanese camera while serving in Vietnam. The attached photo shows workers at the Nikon plant in 1952. It's part of a page of photos from post-WWII Japan, appearing in The Atlantic. Click on the link more pictures of Japan in the 1950's.
Mike McNally
Japanese Cameras
March 2014
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