petri 35 Color... what to do with it

[Disaster_Area]

A year ago got a bunch of old camera's dumped on me from a neighbor. Usually when I get some left over camera gear from a friend or relative its usually along the lines of "Hey .. you're into camera's right.. here's XXXX that's been in my closet for years, maybe you know what to do with it" and it's usually a plastic piece of crap from the eighties... it says Kodak.. so it must be good right 😉. Anyways.. I did some work for a neighbor and he gave me a box of old camera's he'd picked up over the years as payment. I knew there was some good stuff in there, not garage sale leica good, but decent stuff from the 60's and 70's. I kept some, sold some but one camera was the Petri 35 Colour... it was just so small and cute I had to hang on to it. Anyways.. fast forward to now and it's been sitting on my shelf. I'm trimming down my camera gear and was thinking of selling it off. I havent seen many of them on eBay but their going for between $150-$300 when I do see them. Is this actually an accurate price.. .or is it just eBay inflation because of the recent film resurgence? BTW.. it seems to be in perfect working order.. meter works.. shutter works and from what I've read the shutter seems to go on these and it's semi rare to find a working one.

Any thoughts?

 

[Windscale]

I would not take issue with the lower end of your estimate but the higher end may be a bit ambitious. It is a good camera with a good lens comparable with the likes of the Minolta Himatic E-G.

 

[kuzano]

Per Cameraquest... The camera Rollei>>>

Per Cameraquest... The camera Rollei>>>

SHOULD HAVE BUILT!!!!

I agree. Have had 3 of them. If you are fortunate to have the one with the 1/300th speed and a D on the plastic front piece, it is much harder to find than the rest. Two collectors found mine on eBay and got in a "pissing match" over it, to the final bid of over $400.

I had two, counting the D, that were fully functional and great cameras. I had one with a meter dead, but could use it since they are fully functional manually and do not require a battery to function manually.

Have fun with it, or make some money. They are still hot on eBay. Start with a $1 start price, set a reserve at your bottom price, 7 day auction closing mid week early evening. That's my formula and it works very well.

 

[Disaster_Area]

hmmm.. interesting.. I hadn't seen the cameraquest article on it. I put a roll through it when I got it..but I dont think I ever even printed them.. I just wanted to see if it still worked, maybe I'll have to put another through and see if I like it. Otherwise I'll probably put it up on here to fund the IIIc I've been wanting for a while.