PETRI HALF FRAME CAMERAS

Petri half-frames are not the best known half-frames, but they were quality shooters with good features.

• Half

  (1960) Petri jumped on the half-frame bandwagon with everyone else.  This model was very similar in size and style to the Olympus Pen.  It had a focusing 28mm (f2.8-16) lens.  Speeds of B, 1/15 - 1/250.  No meter -- manual exposure control only.  Cold flash shoe and PC contact.  The camera has a unique film advance/shutter cocking system.  Instead of the common thumb activated lever, an index finder lever is located under the lens. Tripod socket and cable release socket.

• Junior

  same as the Petri Half

• Compact

  same as the Petri Half

• Compact E

  (1960) Updated version of the Petri Compact.  Like the Pen EE series, this model added a selenium meter, but unlike the Pen EE this meter did not set the exposure automatically. First, the film is dialed into the meter (on the camera top).  ISO 10 - 800.  Then the desired shutter speed is set on the left-side of the meter dial.  When the camera is pointed at the subject, the meter needle points to the correct f-stop.  The exposure settings are then transferred to the shutter speed and aperture rings around the lens.  It is a quick and easy to understand system.  It had a focusing 28mm (f2.8) lens.  Speeds of B, 1/15 - 1/250.  Cold flash shoe and PC contact.  Square selenium meter next to viewfinder.  Same index-finger film advance/shutter cocking system as the Petri Half. Parallax marks in the viewfinder. Rounding out the convenience features are a tripod socket and cable release socket.

• Half 7

• Compact 7

  same as the Petri Half 7

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