BebuLamar

The Petri 7s is significantly larger than the Canonet and it requires no battery. It has a selenium meter which surprisingly my 2 samples of the cameras still work well. I have the Canonet QL17 III but I much prefer the Petri 7s.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i have a few of them.....

imagemeister Loc: mid east Florida

IT surely sounds to me like he is trying to dispose of it - sorry, if I am not politically correct in your eyes ......either way, it is what it is .....and, yes, it is a shame today honest educated responses are considered rude 8-(

- part of what is wrong with our society and why no one learns about the realities of life. Yes, I am a pragmatist. I am not a politician.....
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AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

My Canonet has the identical body as the Petri 7s. When I first saw the shelves with the collection I thought right away,"holy cow, there is a Canonet"! That was my first camera after my "Brownie" I got for a birthday very early in life. My Canonet got me started in photography. My next camera was a Canon A-1.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

What ever, maybe you need to get over yourself. Have a nice day.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I have a number of these consumer cameras in my collection as well. I wasn’t concerned about collectible value when I started acquiring them as much as I thought they were interesting in showing the evolution of the snapshot camera. Kodak was the king of consumer cameras - the number of individual camera models they produced over the last century is amazing. And they all served primarily the same purpose - making family snapshots.

Stan

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

I do not collect old cameras- that is a good thing so far as my lovely and tolerant wife is concerned. My present inventory of the currently serviceable cameras and related gear is already considered a hoard.

Gotta say that the OP has a COOL collection! Someof those inexpensive simple cameras are what lured a lot of now enthusiasts and pros, into photography. It's incredible how many companies were producing those little Bakolkte gems that enabled many folks to create, now invaluable, family albums and snapshots. Someof the "industrial designs" are indicative of the style of the days gone by.

It's also amazing how many twin-lens reflex cameras were made, some from very obscure and little-known manufacturers.

As for "classics", it seems there is what looks like a Bell & Howell 16mm Elmo or Filmo? with a couple of lenses on a turret. Back in the day, that was the quintessential newsreel camera.

As for dollar value- well, I remember when many avid camera collectors were certified, crazy people! They would pay outrageous prices. to complete a collection or series of cameras that were considered rare. I recall a collector paying over $5,000 for a Zeiss Contessa Nettel (Circa 1920). The prices were not necessarily based on rarity, functionality, or the actual quality of the cameras but on what some fanatic collector was willing to pay. I also remember a gu purchased a pocket-sized Kodad Autographic which, of course, included the often lost stylus and it had a green snakeskin covering. He paid $1500 for that one and never told his wife for fear she would "murder him in his sleep" or at least, divorce him. One collector pad 6-Grand for a Leica with "K" emblazoned on the back ofhte focal-plane shutter curtain. Seem the "K" stood for "Kalt" the German word for "Cold". These cameras were used by the Luftwaffe in WWII- their ball-bearing mechanism allowed the camera to operate correctly in freezing weather. My feeling is that it was too much money for a Nazi camera- but that is my humble opinion! Well, a least, it did not do the any good on the Russian Front!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Cute. The pro camera store I dealt with in the 1980s had a huge wall full of cameras similar to these. They kept adding to it as people brought them junk from their closets. The "still good" cameras went into the used camera case with price tags on them.

I especially like the old flashbulbs and the slide rule!

sirvive Loc: South Louisiana

Enjoyed your reply EL. The movie cam is a much smaller 8mm Revere Eight.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

Yes, I forgot about Revere! The kinda emulated the industrial design of the B&H pro cameras.

elee950021 Loc: New York, NY

The Argus C3 is a "classic." I have one in my collection of rangefinders (Canon 7 and Nikon SP), SLRs (Nikon F, Topcon Super D, Pentax Spotmatic and my first, Yashica Penta J from 1963), DSLRs (Nikon D1,
D100 to D810s, D3s, D3x, Canon 5D to 1DsIII) as well as medium format (Mamiya 645s, Hasselblad 500c) and 4x5
(Toyo) and fun stuff like Holga!

Be well! Ed

PS I also had a Mamiya RB67 but recently traded it "even-steven" for another Nikon D3s!

cambriaman Loc: Central CA Coast

Nice display. Thhe red background enhances the view. I have a similar gathering including the Argus C3 which was my first 35mm and my Mother's Kodak Autographic Brownie (and 30 or more others including my second 35mm, an Exakcta VXIIa).

Seabastes

Seeing the folding cameras which may have been from the 1930's brought back memories of my taking a photography class in my Junior year of high school in 1956 that eventually became a career that has lasted 50 years.

I still shoot for my own pleasure.

Thank you very much.

StevenG Loc: Long Island, NY

titoeric

I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.