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RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

You can google "Pbase" "camera database" A list of camera brands should appear. The more popular ones such as Nikon and Canon will be shown in heavier type, but below that will be a list of all sorts of camera brands. Just go to Petri and click on that and you will see what I think must be a fairly complete listing of Petri camera models. A very few have examples of photographs made with some of the models.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Here’s mine.
Was at a camera show years ago with a female friend of mine and my infant daughter. (Neither of our spouses were interested in photography and we both worked at the same studio) Reminiscing about my first 35mm camera, a Yashica Minister D, I was looking at this Petri and the owner gave it to us saying he thought we were a cute couple. The camera still appears to work. My friend recently shot my daughter’s wedding. (With a Canon 5DMKIV, not the Petri)

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RickManson Loc: Bridgeport ct

Back in the early 70s I had a petri that my brother got me through military. On mine I could change lens on it. It was a fun camera and it went with me all over the world.

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

sudamar wrote:

I was a photographer for the Loveland, Colorado paper in the mid-60's. We had a couple Petri cameras and that was it. If I remember right, they had normal lens and they weren't lens that came off. They did take decent pictures, however. I haven't heard the Petri name in many years. Did anyone here ever use a Petri and does anyone know when the company went out of business? Thanks.

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I had one and used it in the mid 1960s but I don't know if they still exist now.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

I've collected a Kuribayashi Karoron folder, Petri R.F. folder, Petri 35 Color Corrected Super 2.8 (2 of 'em), Petri 35 Color Corrected Super 1.9, Petri Racer, Petri 7S, and the little Petri Color 35 Fully Automatic (wish I could find a repairable non-automatic Color 25). The 7S has a memorable shutter cocking feel and sound - about as loud as one of the vintage Argus rangefinders - kerTHUNK! I do get questions when I've been out with the rangefinders - people wondering what they were and if one could still get film for them.

Stan

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

sudamar wrote:

I was a photographer for the Loveland, Colorado paper in the mid-60's. We had a couple Petri cameras and that was it. If I remember right, they had normal lens and they weren't lens that came off. They did take decent pictures, however. I haven't heard the Petri name in many years. Did anyone here ever use a Petri and does anyone know when the company went out of business? Thanks.

All I know is that my brother in law had one in the 70s. Made in East Germany I believe. Very acceptable images I seem to remember.

SoftLights Loc: New Orleans, LA

When I was redeployed to Germany in the early 70's The Minolta SRT-101 and Nikon F's were what all the GI's wanted. I couldn't afford one of them so I bought a Petri w/1.8 lens. About all I remember about it was it had a 1/1000 shutter and was manual. I shot with it for almost three years until it took a fall out of a helicopter and I replaced it with a Nikon F which I still have.

Bill 45

Last summer at a yard sale I found a Petri Flex 7 with a Petri 1:1.8 55mm lens. Also was a Soligor Telephoto 1:5.6 350mm lens. The self timer on the camera is not working right. Everything else works fine. Have not tested the camera with film yet. $10.00 for camera and lenses

Richard Engelmann Loc: Boulder, Colorado

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I did buy one of that model for my camera collection. Some day I'll try to put film through it.

BebuLamar

Richard Engelmann wrote:

I did buy one of that model for my camera collection. Some day I'll try to put film through it.

I have 2 Petri 7s which has very faded rangefinder patch but the selenium meter works fine. I have 2 Yashica Lynx 14 and they are in excellent condition but the meter don't work.
I have 2 Olympus RD-35 and they are OK. One Canonet 17QL and it's OK too. But I still prefer either the Petri or Yashica. The Yashica is nicest as I don't need the meter. I need the rangefinder more.

Nosaj Loc: Sarasota, Florida

In the mid-70’s, I got a Petri SLR from a local camera shop in a small town in NH. The price was very low because, as the store owner told me, the company was gone and leftovers were extremely cheap. The camera lasted for about 10 years and was fun to use. Basically, it was a Pentax clone.

Bill 45

BebuLamar wrote:

I have 2 Petri 7s which has very faded rangefinder patch but the selenium meter works fine. I have 2 Yashica Lynx 14 and they are in excellent condition but the meter don't work.
I have 2 Olympus RD-35 and they are OK. One Canonet 17QL and it's OK too. But I still prefer either the Petri or Yashica. The Yashica is nicest as I don't need the meter. I need the rangefinder more.

At a another yard sale this summer I found a Yashica Lynx 14E with the Yashinon-DX 1:1.4 45mm lens. The view finder could use a good clearing. Test it with 200 speed film, pictures came out great with the 1.4 lens. With the camera came a leather case for the camera. Another $10.00 buy.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

BebuLamar wrote:

I have 2 Petri 7s which has very faded rangefinder patch but the selenium meter works fine. I have 2 Yashica Lynx 14 and they are in excellent condition but the meter don't work.
I have 2 Olympus RD-35 and they are OK. One Canonet 17QL and it's OK too. But I still prefer either the Petri or Yashica. The Yashica is nicest as I don't need the meter. I need the rangefinder more.

The Lynx 14 and 14E are monstrous cameras for 35mm. Can’t figure why Yashica made them so large when the other Lynx cameras are much more reasonable in size.

Stan

Bill 45

StanMac wrote:

The Lynx 14 and 14E are monstrous cameras for 35mm. Can’t figure why Yashica made them so large when the other Lynx cameras are much more reasonable in size.

Stan

I can't said for the Lynx 14, 14E is because of 1.4 lens that is on the camera.

BebuLamar

StanMac wrote:

The Lynx 14 and 14E are monstrous cameras for 35mm. Can’t figure why Yashica made them so large when the other Lynx cameras are much more reasonable in size.

Stan

My 2 Lynx are Lynx 14 and Lynx 14E. They are the same size. Both have the same lens. The different is in the meter. I prefer the older Lynx 14. Both are large but very nice. The Olympus 35RD and Canonet 17QL are significantly smaller but I don't like them as much. The Petri 7s has all the features I would like but they don't seem to last as I can't find good working ones today. Well I guess my dad bought one in 63 for $80 so it wasn't an expensive camera. His too has bitten the dust.