This photo of my photoalbum was taken in Okinawa.

The Petri (ペトリ, Petri?) Camera Company was an optical company and manufacturer of cameras in Japan. It was founded in 1907. Prior to World War II, it was known as Kuribayashi Shashin Kōgyō or Kuribayashi Camera Industry, inc. Japan (the company name means "Acorn Grove"). In 1962 it changed its name to Petri Camera Ltd. Petri produced many bellows and single-lens reflex cameras. During the 1960s its main products equalled Nikon's in features at half the price. Due to increased electronization, mass production and competition from other camera vendors, Kuribayashi filed for final bankruptcy in 1977. The labor union, affiliated with Sohyo, continued the company under the name Petri Kōgyō K.K. with employee capital. The last model produced was the MF10, but with its screw-mount lens it could not compete with products having electrical contacts, and disappeared in the autofocus boom of the 1980s. Now out of the camera business, Petri Kōgyō manufactures telescopes at a plant in the town of Sugito, Saitama Prefecture.

Kodak entered into consumer inkjet photo printers in a joint venture with manufacturer Lexmark in 1999 with the Kodak Personal Picture Maker, a 1200x1200 dpi parallel-port printer with CompactFlash and SmartMedia memory slots that could be used without a computer. In February 2007, Kodak re-entered the market by announcing a plan to revolutionize the consumer inkjet industry beginning with a new product line of All-In-One (AiO) Inkjet printers. Kodak claims their printers bring up to a 50% cost savings to consumers[2] while still providing lab-quality prints due to Kodacolor Technology. The 2007 Kodak EasyShare AiO models: 5100 ($149.99), 5300 ($199.99), 5500 ($299.99) all use premium, pigment-based ink priced at $9.99/cartridge for text black and $14.99/cartridge for a five-ink photo cartridge. In an effort to lower the cost of premium pigmented ink, Kodak did not manufacture the print head onto the cartridge. The cartridge purely serves as an ink tank. The printers were initially available exclusively at BestBuy locations across the United States. According to a February 2007 Businessweek article, Kodak planned to spend upwards of US$ 300 million to launch its new Kodak Inkjet Printer series.