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'''Ross''' was a British optical company, founded in 1830. It also made cameras, from about 1855. It is well known for its camera lenses and its binoculars. It had a license for the British Empire to make lens types of [[Carl Zeiss]]. In 1948 Ross joined with [[Houghton-Butcher]]'s successor Barnet Ensign Ltd. Together the companies survived as [[Ross-Ensign]] until 1961.
 
'''Ross''' was a British optical company, founded in 1830. It also made cameras, from about 1855. It is well known for its camera lenses and its binoculars. It had a license for the British Empire to make lens types of [[Carl Zeiss]]. In 1948 Ross joined with [[Houghton-Butcher]]'s successor Barnet Ensign Ltd. Together the companies survived as [[Ross-Ensign]] until 1961.
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==Products==
 
==Products==
 
=== Cameras ===
 
=== Cameras ===

Revision as of 17:18, 18 May 2008

British companies
Adams & Co. | Agilux | Aldis | APeM | Aptus | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beard | Beck | Benetfink‎ | Billcliff | Boots | British Ferrotype | Butcher | Chapman | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dekko | De Vere | Dixons | Dollond | Elliott | Gandolfi | Gnome | Griffiths | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Johnson | Kentmere | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lejeune and Perken | Lizars | London & Paris Optic & Clock Company | Marion | Marlow | Meagher | MPP | Neville | Newman & Guardia | Pearson and Denham | Perken, Son and Company | Perken, Son & Rayment | Photopia | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Reynolds and Branson | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Sands & Hunter | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Underwood | United | Watkins | Watson | Wynne's Infallible | Wray

Ross was a British optical company, founded in 1830. It also made cameras, from about 1855. It is well known for its camera lenses and its binoculars. It had a license for the British Empire to make lens types of Carl Zeiss. In 1948 Ross joined with Houghton-Butcher's successor Barnet Ensign Ltd. Together the companies survived as Ross-Ensign until 1961.

Products

Cameras

  • Ross Focal Plane Camera (strut folding press camera)

Lenses

Names of Ross lenses:

  • Cabinet
  • Definex
  • Homocentric
  • Telecentric
  • Teleros
  • Xpres
  • Xtralux

See their 39mm screw lenses and their Contax lenses.

Bibliography

  • Channing, Norman and Dunn, Mike. British Camera Makers. An A-Z Guide to Companies and Products. London : Parkland Designs, 1996. ISBN 0-9524630-0-8