Corfield Ltd., K.G. | Periflex 1 | Other | 35mm film
1954-55 | 35mm Camera | 35mm cassette film. Made well outside my collection's time-frame, but collected as one of very few British-made 35mm cameras, this third version of the Periflex 1, black covered, with bright alloy top and bottom plates, was introduced in 1954 after a very short-lived 1953 brown-pigskin-covered first version and an all-black second version. It qualifies as a Leica copy, styled after the standard Leica and with a Leica thread lens mount. Its unique focusing system, (which as a spectacle wearer I find almost impossible to use), uses an inverted periscope with reflex mirror, that can be inserted into the optical path in front of the horizontal-travel, focal plane shutter, which is speeded 1/30 to 1/1000, T&B, and synchronised for flash bulbs. This camera is fitted with a Corfield Tele-Lumax 135mm f2.8 lens. Corfield ceased camera production in 1962/3.
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