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'''Sunpet Industries Limited''' is a company based in Hong Kong, and with manufacturing plants in mainland China, which produces a variety of optical goods, ranging from cheap novelty items to quite serious binoculars and telescopes. The firm was established as Sunny Industries in 1972, and changed to the current name in 1980.<ref>[http://www.sunpet.com.hk/about_us.html 'About us'] page at [http://www.sunpet.com.hk/ Sunpet Industries].</ref> The company has made a number of simple, plastic-bodied cameras for 120, 35 mm, 126 and 110 film. Some 35 mm cameras are still listed among the firm's current products.<ref>[http://www.sunpet.com.hk/products.html Current products] page at Sunpet.</ref>
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'''Sunpet Industries Limited''' is a company based in Hong Kong, and with manufacturing plants in mainland China, which produces a variety of optical goods, ranging from cheap novelty items to quite serious binoculars and telescopes. The firm was established as Sunny Industries in 1972, and changed to the current name in 1980.<ref>[http://www.sunpet.com.hk/about-us 'About us'] page at [http://www.sunpet.com.hk/ Sunpet Industries].</ref> The company has made a number of simple cameras for 120, 35 mm, 126 and 110 film. Sunpet made the [[Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim]] cameras.<ref>The camera appears without Vivitar branding in the [https://issuu.com/sunpet/docs/sunpet_catalogue Sunpet catalogue] dated 2017 (item 246 on page 20).</ref> Some 35 mm cameras are still listed among the firm's current products.<ref>[http://www.sunpet.com.hk/film-cameras Current products] page at Sunpet.</ref>
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==Notes==
 
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==Links==
 
==Links==
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/sunpet120/ Sunpet 120 user's group] at Flickr
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* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/sunpet120/ Sunpet 120 user's group] at Flickr (the 120 is a simple 6x6 cm camera like the [[Diana]])
  
  

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Sunpet Industries Limited is a company based in Hong Kong, and with manufacturing plants in mainland China, which produces a variety of optical goods, ranging from cheap novelty items to quite serious binoculars and telescopes. The firm was established as Sunny Industries in 1972, and changed to the current name in 1980.[1] The company has made a number of simple cameras for 120, 35 mm, 126 and 110 film. Sunpet made the Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim cameras.[2] Some 35 mm cameras are still listed among the firm's current products.[3]



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  1. 'About us' page at Sunpet Industries.
  2. The camera appears without Vivitar branding in the Sunpet catalogue dated 2017 (item 246 on page 20).
  3. Current products page at Sunpet.

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