On 6/22/05, Fred Widall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My latest ebay purchase is a Petri 1.9 Color Corrected Super > rangefinder, complete with wideangle and telephoto auxillary > lenses, and matching viewfinder. A nice fast Orikkor 45mm F1.9 > lens on it, and shutter up to 1/500 sec. > > First impressions are that it is quality camera. In weight and size > it is very close to my SP1000, but like my S1A the door > opening mechanism is on the body, rather than on the rewind handle. > A solid early 60's Japanese camera. > > Everything appears to be working as it should. The body is in > excellent shape with almost no marks. Judging by the state of > the camera bottom I would guess it rarely came out of its case. > I'll run a roll through it tomorrow and see what happens. > > Anyone have an idea what this might be worth ? I'm too embarassed > to reveal how little I paid <G>. Plus it was a local seller so not even > any shipping charges.
I'll defer to Mr. Sanderson on the issue of price. But, I will say that all those many 60's Japanese rangefinders seem to be great little cameras. Generally well made, pretty good, fastish lenses, they take pretty good pix on the whole. And, for the most part (unless they're an unusual model), they can be had pretty cheaply. I always thought that a big collection of them would be fun. They'll never appreciate in value, but they'd be fun to have... Congrats on yours, Fred. BTW, if your auxilliary lenses are anything like the ones I have for my Yashica Electro 35, they're useless, except to say you've got "the complete set". Big, heavy, and they about double (or more) the speed of the lens - or would that be halve the speed? - you know what I mean. They're not at all sharp, to boot. Better you should step toward or away from your subject... <LOL> cheers, frank cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
