Perfex Fifty-Five
Perfex55
1940-45
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1940-45 Perfex Fifty-Five was built by the Candid Camera Corp. of America of Chicago, Illinois.  The Perfex Fifty-Five has an all aluminum body with a built in extinction exposure meter, focal plane shutter from 1 second to 1/1250th of a second plus B.  An American attempt to compete with the Leica, none to successfully.  The lens on this example is an f2.8 50mm Wollensak Velostigmat.