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The first Petri photo cameras were mainly folding cameras for roll film and came from the Japanese factory 'Kuribayashi Camera Works', founded in 1907. The company only started producing SLR cameras in 1959 with the first Petri 'Penta' series and changed its name in 1961 to "Petri Camera Co. Inc.", which name can also be found on this Petri Flex V from 1961. In the 1960s, the beautiful and well-built Petri Flex V was a much-sold SLR camera that, with its fair price, was a formidable competitor of the then very popular and much more expensive Asahi Pentax SV. Very special about the Petriflex V is the beautiful styling of the most pointed prism housing of all SLR cameras and the way in which the name 'Petri flex', serial number and a golden arrow are applied to it. For years after the success of the Petriflex V, the Petri Camera Co. Producing KB-SLR cameras, but instead of building the cameras more compactly - as the competitors did - the Petri cameras became bigger and more bulky and started to look more and more like the East German Praktica's, until the company eventually went bankrupt in 1982 went.
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