{"id":20333,"date":"2021-04-15T01:37:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T05:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=20333"},"modified":"2021-04-11T20:10:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:10:48","slug":"down-periscope-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/down-periscope-2\/","title":{"rendered":"down periscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20342\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Periflex_camera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20342\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20342\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Periflex_camera-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Periflex model<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/corfield.org\/camera\/corfield.htm\">Corfield Periflex<\/a> line fulfilled the post-war demand in Britain for \u00a0a quality 35mm camera. The cameras copied the old Leica screw mount bodies without a rangefinder or (initially) a viewfinder.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowing from the SLR world, a periscope and mirror slid in between lens and film to allow focussing \u00a0on part of the image. The lens mount was threaded to fit all Leica screw mount lenses.<\/p>\n<p>We saw a few occasionally at our fairs. To the modern smartphone camera user, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Corfield_Periflex\">Periflex<\/a> was downright slow and complicated to use, yet well loved in Britain for the few years it was marketed.\u00a0\u00a0A quality camera at a good price, far cheaper than a Leica.<\/p>\n<p>N.B. The title of this post recognizes the many submarine movies of the last century. My favourite being the German film &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Das_Boot\">Das Boot<\/a>&#8221; which was sadly by far the most authentic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The Corfield Periflex line fulfilled the post-war demand in Britain for \u00a0a quality 35mm camera. The cameras copied the old Leica screw mount bodies without a rangefinder or (initially) a viewfinder. Borrowing from the SLR world, a periscope and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/down-periscope-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944,1],"tags":[398,3614,3613,3612,330],"class_list":["post-20333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-uncategorized","tag-camera","tag-great-britain","tag-leica-copy","tag-periflex","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20345,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20333\/revisions\/20345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}