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. 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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