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#Petri color 35 full

The Color 35 has the nicest pop-up rewind lever that I have ever seen on a rangefinder. This is quite sad as I was fond of the company name (see below). The Petri Color 35 doesn't have the Kuribayashi name visible anywhere because the Kuribayashi Camera Company changed their name to the Petri Camera Company in 1962. You may have to compensate your ASA dial a bit. Unfortunately, the mercury PX675 1.3V is not produced anymore, but you can use a silver-oxide SR44 instead without problems. If it's below, then you should replace the battery. If the meter needle deflects above or onto the red bullseye, the battery is still good.

The battery test is activated by putting the shutter to 'B' and the aperture to '22' (both marked in red) and pushing in the battery-test button on the far right. The needle is only visible in the viewfinder unlike the Petri 7s where it is also visible on top. The match-needle system was called the " Circle-Eye System." Because the selenium cells circle the lens, they automatically compensate for any filters. Using the text or images on this website without permission on an ebay auction or any other site is a violation of federal law. This viewfinder is gorgeous but without a rangefinder, it's kind of odd. There's also a nice projected framelines and a large + sign in the middle to help center the picture and orient horizontal and vertical lines. What is nice about the camera is that the viewfinder shows the scale focus distance in meters, feet, as well as icons (head-n-shoulders, people, mountains). Previous Petri models (Petri 35MX 2.8 CCS 7s) were all rangefinders, so I was surprised that the Color 35 was scale focus.

#Petri color 35 full

Extremely compact, but with a full flash shoe and PC-Sync socket, unlike the Olympus XA (no flash/sync socket) or Rollei 35 (weird upside down flash).

Bright viewfinder with all the important information visible.

All camera controls easiy accessed with dials easily accessed with your right index finger (lefties beware!).

I'm very impressed with the Petri and share Stephen Gandy's high appraisal of it.

First Japanese camera to have both exposure and distance visible in the viewfinder.

Smallest Japanese full-frame 35mm camera at time of introduction.

John Baird's Collectors Guide to Kuribayashi-Petri Cameras notes that the Petri Color 35 is famous for: It may be an early unit, but I doubt it means it's more collectible. Petri lens - meaning its color corrected. What's strange about my camera is that I've noticed every other Petri 35 on the web (as well as Baird's book) has a C.C. I've been pleasantly surprised with the quality of the Petri optics, they are quite good. These cameras are pretty common, so buy it for its use-value not the collector-value. It's a very high-quality camera that was also affordable, and it apparently sold like hot-cakes. The Petri Color 35 is a compact scale-focused leaf-shuttered 35mm camera that was introduced in 1968.