Petri MF-101A

Not the historical Petri, but a rebadged Cosina image by Jörg Krüger (Image rights)

By the late 1970s, Petri (Kuribayashi) had ceased manufacturing cameras, but the familiar brand was taken over for use on a series of rebadged products. The MF-101A falls in a series of models actually manufactured by Cosina, in this case being a relabeled Cosina CT-1A. This is a back-to basics camera with plastic body shell parts; but its shutter specs and self-timer put it ahead of some other "student" models like the Pentax K1000 or the Canon TX.

At this time Cosina was becoming the OEM for a startling number of rebranded SLR models using K mount lenses. The CT-1A was their first SLR viewfinder to incorporate a 3-LED (– o +) exposure meter display—a feature carried all the way through to their prestige Cosina Voigtländer models introduced years later. (The Petri MF-101 without the "A" is a rebadged Cosina CT-1, which used a match-needle meter display.)

Links

• Manual (PDF) for the Cosina-labeled version of this camera, from Mike Butkus' OrphanCameras.com