| Corfield was formed in 1948 in
Wolverhampton, England and begun manufacturing the Lumimeter, a simple
enlarging exposure meter. In 1953 a high quality camera, the
Periflex was offered to the public and quickly became a great
succcess. The company moved to Ballymoney in County Antrim,
Ireland in 1959. Relatively cheap, high quality Japanese
cameras
were now appearing in most U.K. camera shops and in response to this
the major German manufacturers reduced their prices. After an
extensive but not too successful search for outside capital to revamp
their camera line, the company was taken over by Guiness, but even so,
camera production ceased in 1961. One of the few British post war
quality camera manufacturers. |
