Either that repair shop was excellent or the Kuribayashi factory was, this camera only required a little cleaning to function perfectly in spite of being in storage for years. This one, however, was repaired by Graf’s Camera Repair of Los Angeles in 1975. Inside the film door, a sticker from the factory said they would stand behind and repair the camera free of charge regardless. It’s really too bad Kuribayashi didn’t survive. It does have a tripod socket, but it lacks a thread for a shutter release, so that’s just for the self-timer for family or group shots. The mirror may have faded a little bit, but it is still very usable.
#Petri color 35 Patch
The rangefinder patch is nice and contrasty thanks to the green glass over it. The shutter is very quiet, as you would expect of a Copal type, making it a very nice camera to walkabout and shoot with on the street. The Tessar design lens is acceptably sharp when stopped down. The lens can be prone to some flare, so I’ve taken to putting a hood on it when I go out on sunny days. It’s on the small side, and is light weight. I paid $30 for this little gem, and it came with a never-ready case and a roll of expired Arista black and white. If it does that didn’t increase the price very much. Some people think the badge makes it a little more collectable. The barrel also has the X/M switch if you want to use flashbulbs instead of electronic flash.The only other item on the top of the camera is the badge reading “COMMEMORATION Productions EXCEEDED 1200000” which seems to date this particular camera to 1960.
#Petri color 35 Pc
If you want to use a flash with the camera, you will need to connect it to the PC socket on the lens barrel to fire it. There’s no meter, so the dial is just to remind you what you have loaded. The top of the Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super holds the advance lever with counter and rewind crank, the cold shoe, the shutter release, and a film speed dial. The shutter is a Petri MXV which is a Kuribayashi built Copal shutter offering speeds from B to 1/500th. It is a Tessar type design that doesn’t appear to be coated. The lens is a Petri Orikkor 45mm f2.8, as the name of the camera would suggest. The rangefinder window is overlaid with a green glass covering to make it a bit easier to use. The viewfinder has a nice bright line and is parallax corrected. Given the price these are going for, I was surprised at that.
#Petri color 35 manual
It’s a full manual 35mm true rangefinder, not a zone focus camera. Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super does very well without any electronics. Even though the company produced competent cameras, if this one is any indication, Kuribayashi could not compete in the automation craze of the 1970s, and so it folded. After this camera came out, a more expensive version with a f1.9 lens followed. ThePetri 2.8 Color Corrected Super was introduced in 1958, just as color films were catching on. The Petri cameras were made by the Kuribayashi Camera Company of Tokyo Japan. I’m not sure why these things are not more popular than they are. I’d never heard of a Petri camera before happening on to this Petri 2.8 Color Corrected Super… Which kind of surprised me, since it’s actually a pretty nice camera.
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