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    The Periflex British eccentricity at its best

    Nov 13, 2018 5 minutes

    In 1953, The BritishJournal Photographic Almanac published an advertisement for a camera that didn't exist. It showed something similar to, but not the same as, a Leica, with the top plate containing film wind and rewind knobs, a shutter speed dial and a square viewfinder with an accessory shoe on top. The shutter release was positioned on the front of the body to one side of a lens which bore little resemblance to any other of the day.

    ‘The new 35mm camera by Corfield for Great Britain and the World,' proclaimed the text, which also went on to mention that the new camera accepted all Leica-type lenses and had a focal plane shutter. More than that it didn't say. The camera didn't even have a name.

    The reason why this advertisement was so vague was because it had been rushed out to meet a tight deadline towards the end of 1952, when the annually published BJP

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