On Nov 16, 2006, at 6:03 PM, keith_w wrote: > That is an interesting camera. Simple yet capable, in the way of the > late 50's cameras from Japan. Mechanical and sturdy. > Oddly, McKeown has little to say about Petri! At least my older > edition > doesn't.
Kuribayashi was the name of the company that made Petri cameras. The company was founded in 1907 to make photo accessories and went into camera production in 1919. Their original cameras were sold under the brand name First. They changed to the Petri name after WW II and later changed the company name to Petri Camera Company. They made a range of SLR cameras of mediocre quality until their bankruptcy in 1977. John Baird wrote a book on Petri cameras that I have a copy of somewhere. Those SLRs are completely unique in mechanical design, sort of a brute force design with built-in self-destruct tendencies. There used to be a Petri collectors society that put out a regular newsletter, but I haven't heard about it or Don Phillips, the founder, for a very long time. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
