Cost with a basic lens was almost $90 at the time and given that the average male city worker earned around $25-30 per month, it was a seriously expensive outfit. Think AU$15-20,000 in today's outlay, the price you'd pay for a full pro-grade digital outfit. Fitting an imported Zeiss lens added almost 35% to that cost. Given that this model was only a cosmetic improvement to the cheaper standard VI and that the better lenses could be fitted to that camera on request, this seems to have been a vanity model for the cashed up buyer and is much rarer than the lesser model.