Category: Japan

Petri 35 2.8 Color Corrected Super Compact cameras made before WWII were klapp style or twin-lens reflexes, using either 120 or 127 formats, so called in Japan ‘semi’ and ‘best’ / ‘vest’ respectively. The early German monoblock models using ‘Kinofilm’, 35mm format, did not catch up much till after the war. In Japan, the early 35mm models by, say, the...

Petri 7, 7 S Kuribayashi was one of the early camera makers in Japan, dating back to the early last century. Till WWII, they sold cameras under the ‘First’ brand via Minagawa Shoten, an external distributor that owned the First trade name. Note that Tokiwa Seiki, another early camera maker, made cameras for the same distributor until about WWII, so...