BerkeyKeystone XR306
OurDailyChallenge "Look What I Found"
Here is a camera I found amongst some used eyeglasses donated to the Lions Clibs' Eyeglasses Recycling Program. The name on the camera is BerkyKeystone and the model is XR306 with a 2x tele Lens. On the front of the camera it says Everflash and in the back there is "EMG Made in USA"
This is a company I had never heard of before, I remember Keystone for their 8mm movie cameras and projectors. I Googled the company but very little shows up although it seems that Berky seems to have partnered with a number of other brand names to produced their products under licence.
Can anyone out there shed any light on this 110 camera?
Here is some additional information I found:
Berkey Photo Inc. Versus Eastman Kodak Company
This action, one of the largest and most significant private antitrust suits in history, was brought by Berkey Photo, Inc., a far smaller but still prominent participant in the industry. Berkey competes with Kodak in providing photofinishing services-the conversion of exposed film into finished prints, slides, or movies. Until 1978, Berkey sold cameras as well. It does not manufacture film, but it does purchase Kodak film for resale to its customers, and it also buys photofinishing equipment and supplies, including color print paper, from Kodak.
The two firms thus stand in a complex, multifaceted relationship, for Kodak has been Berkey's competitor in some markets and its supplier in others. In this action, Berkey claims that every aspect of the association has been infected by Kodak's monopoly power in the film, color print paper, and camera markets, willfully acquired, maintained, and exercised in violation of § 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 5 2. . . . Berkey alleges that these violations caused it to lose sales in the camera and photofinishing markets and to pay excessive prices to Kodak for film, color print paper, and photofinishing equipment.
[The jury found for Berkey on virtually every point, awarding damages totaling $37,620,130. judge Frankel upheld verdicts aggregating $27,154,700 for lost camera and photofinishing sales and for excessive prices on film and photofinishing equipment. . . . Trebled and supplemented by attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 5 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 5 15, Berkey's judgment reached a grand total of $87,091,309.47, with interest, of course, continuing to accrue.
Berkey has been a camera manufacturer since its 1966 acquisition of the Keystone Camera Company, a producer of movie cameras and equipment. In 1968 Berkey began to sell amateur still cameras made by other firms, and the following year the Keystone Division commenced manufacturing such cameras itself. From 1970 to 1977, Berkey accounted for 8.2% of the sales in the camera market in the United States, reaching a peak of 10.2% in 1976. In 1978, Berkey sold its camera division and thus abandoned this market.
BerkeyKeystone XR306
OurDailyChallenge "Look What I Found"
Here is a camera I found amongst some used eyeglasses donated to the Lions Clibs' Eyeglasses Recycling Program. The name on the camera is BerkyKeystone and the model is XR306 with a 2x tele Lens. On the front of the camera it says Everflash and in the back there is "EMG Made in USA"
This is a company I had never heard of before, I remember Keystone for their 8mm movie cameras and projectors. I Googled the company but very little shows up although it seems that Berky seems to have partnered with a number of other brand names to produced their products under licence.
Can anyone out there shed any light on this 110 camera?
Here is some additional information I found:
Berkey Photo Inc. Versus Eastman Kodak Company
This action, one of the largest and most significant private antitrust suits in history, was brought by Berkey Photo, Inc., a far smaller but still prominent participant in the industry. Berkey competes with Kodak in providing photofinishing services-the conversion of exposed film into finished prints, slides, or movies. Until 1978, Berkey sold cameras as well. It does not manufacture film, but it does purchase Kodak film for resale to its customers, and it also buys photofinishing equipment and supplies, including color print paper, from Kodak.
The two firms thus stand in a complex, multifaceted relationship, for Kodak has been Berkey's competitor in some markets and its supplier in others. In this action, Berkey claims that every aspect of the association has been infected by Kodak's monopoly power in the film, color print paper, and camera markets, willfully acquired, maintained, and exercised in violation of § 2 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. 5 2. . . . Berkey alleges that these violations caused it to lose sales in the camera and photofinishing markets and to pay excessive prices to Kodak for film, color print paper, and photofinishing equipment.
[The jury found for Berkey on virtually every point, awarding damages totaling $37,620,130. judge Frankel upheld verdicts aggregating $27,154,700 for lost camera and photofinishing sales and for excessive prices on film and photofinishing equipment. . . . Trebled and supplemented by attorneys' fees and costs pursuant to 5 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 5 15, Berkey's judgment reached a grand total of $87,091,309.47, with interest, of course, continuing to accrue.
Berkey has been a camera manufacturer since its 1966 acquisition of the Keystone Camera Company, a producer of movie cameras and equipment. In 1968 Berkey began to sell amateur still cameras made by other firms, and the following year the Keystone Division commenced manufacturing such cameras itself. From 1970 to 1977, Berkey accounted for 8.2% of the sales in the camera market in the United States, reaching a peak of 10.2% in 1976. In 1978, Berkey sold its camera division and thus abandoned this market.