Best I can do is throw on the Oculus VR set and find a youtube360 video of the U2 concert. Like, somebody paid all the money for good seats and spent their time holding up a 360 camera for the views and likes. I hope to see it in person someday.
@Revengeofthenerds It's a Petri Penta V6-II. They were released in the early 1970s. You can tell because it has a hot shoe (a place on the top to slide in a camera flash), and the V6-II was the first model Petri made to include that. Models prior to that did not have the little rails on top to slide in the flash. Unlikely that the leather case was military-issue IMO. More likely that it was just something he bought and carried with him. My dad did the same in Vietnam - carried an Olympus camera. A ~50-55mm f/1.8 lens was pretty much a standard issue lens in those days, just about everyone had one. That was the stock lens that came with the camera. http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Petri_Penta https://w.atwiki.jp/petri/pages/24.html https://mattsclassiccameras.com/slr/petri-penta-v6/ (< note that this guy has it wrong, he has a V6-II, not a V6) AFAIK this isn't a particularly rare or noteworthy camera from a photography perspective, but it's a pretty neat thing to have from a "family" member - something he handled and saw the world through, especially during the war. Most of the leather cases I've seen cover up the camera so much that I'd probably display it side-by-side (the case next to the camera). You could try shooting with it! Old film cameras had so few moving parts that they were nearly indestructible.
Thank you so much for this. Kinda what I suspected. The leather case covers up all of it like you said. Reminds me of one of those old brief cases. Didn't expect it to be rare or noteworthy -- pretty much everything he owned was basic, functional, and able to be worked on. Definitely cool as a memorial piece like you said. Plus I got a few thousand rounds of ammo and a gun, which will eventually be my boys' first deer rifle, so those do have some value ;-)
Your kid might have fun shooting with the camera, too. It's getting to be a pretty novel thing where surprisingly few people have even touched a film camera and it's got such a different look from digital. Just gotta remember to rewind the film when you're done before opening the back, or you'll expose all of it.
That reminded me of a funny story . . . I had an older Fuji camera that I used as my point-and-shoot snapshot camera. I kept it in my truck and is the camera I used when I was building my house. When the film was loaded, it would unwind the whole roll onto the end spool, and as you took photos, it would wind into the roll canister. When I had my accident, I was holding the camera in my hand and it smashed into several pieces including smashing open the back. All the pictures I had already taken were safely wound into the canister, and only the one last photo was exposed to light. I was able to get the whole rest of the roll developed, as I had taken about 20-21 of the 24 roll.