![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() McKeown lists developments of the Petri 35, which he names the Petri 35X (1955) and Petri 35MX (1955-8) these suffixes presumably refer to improvements in the shutter (flash synchronisation), so may account for the variations noted. The shutter described in the manual has X-synchronisation, with a PC socket and cold shoe it is cocked automatically by the film advance, which is lever-wind (but the camera pictured below left, and in the advertisement, clearly has a cocking lever on the lens barrel). The advertisement reproduced to the right shows a camera according to the specification described by McKeown. Again, McKeown gives the range of speeds as only 1/10 - 1/200 second, plus 'B', while the manual states that the shutter gives speeds from 1 to 1/300 second. It is likely that the specification improved with time: McKeown states that some examples have an f/3.5 lens, but the manual only mentions an f/2.8. The camera has Petri's 45mm Orikkor lens, a coated Tessar type, and their Carperu shutter. The Petri 35 (this model name is clear from the user's manual, and 'Petri 35' appears on the badge, together with 'color corrected super') was Kuribayashi's first 35mm rangefinder, in 1954. ![]()
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