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== Products ==
 
== Products ==
 
=== Cameras ===
 
=== Cameras ===
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''For the cameras made by Barnet Ensign Ross and later by Ross Ensign, see [[Houghton and Ensign]].''
 
''For the cameras made by Barnet Ensign Ross and later by Ross Ensign, see [[Houghton and Ensign]].''
  
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* [[Sutton's Panoramic Camera]], 1861<ref name=McK>McKeown, p861.</ref>
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* [[Sutton's Panoramic Camera]], 1861<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}}, p861.</ref>
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* Wet-plate sliding-box cameras, mono and stereo<ref name=McK></ref>
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* Wet-plate tailboard cameras, mono and stereo
 
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* 'Portable Divided' camera (TLR, 1890)<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C120.html Portable Divided Camera] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography]: standard model from 1890 and de-luxe model with extension back, from 1897; both for 4x5-inch plates, with Rapid Symmetrical [[combinable lens]]es and a single front door.</ref>
 
* 'Portable Divided' camera (TLR, 1890)<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C120.html Portable Divided Camera] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography]: standard model from 1890 and de-luxe model with extension back, from 1897; both for 4x5-inch plates, with Rapid Symmetrical [[combinable lens]]es and a single front door.</ref>
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* Portable Twin-lens Camera (TLR, 1895)<ref>[http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.Object?inC=WLPA&inA=16&inO=522 Portable Twin-lens Camera] (serial no. 2!) for 2½x3½-inch plates, about 1895, also with Rapid Symmetrical lenses, and with double front doors; sold at the [http://www.auction2000.se/auk/w.ObjectList?inSiteLang=&inC=WLPA&inA=16 sixteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 5 December 2009.</ref>
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* Portable Twin-lens Camera (TLR, 1895)<ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Ross-Twin-Lens-Reflex/AI-16-19376 Portable Twin-lens Camera] (serial no. 2!) for 2½x3½-inch plates, about 1895, also with Rapid Symmetrical lenses, and with double front doors; sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-16/ sixteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 5 December 2009.</ref>
 
* Ross Focal Plane Camera (strut folding press camera)
 
* Ross Focal Plane Camera (strut folding press camera)
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''See their [[39mm screw lenses#Ross|39mm screw lenses]] and their [[Contax rangefinder lenses#Ross|Contax lenses]].''
 
''See their [[39mm screw lenses#Ross|39mm screw lenses]] and their [[Contax rangefinder lenses#Ross|Contax lenses]].''
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==Links==
 
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* Ross catalogues (pdf) of lenses, shutters and cameras at [http://www.cineressources.net/recherche_t.php Ciné-Ressources]: [http://www.cineressources.net/images/ouv_num/173.pdf 1912] (without the Xpres) and [http://www.cineressources.net/images/ouv_num/181.pdf 1914] with it.  
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* Ross catalogues (pdf) of lenses, shutters and cameras at [http://www.cineressources.net/recherche_t.php Ciné-Ressources]: [http://www.cineressources.net/consultationPdf/web/o000/173.pdf 1912] (without the Xpres) and [http://www.cineressources.net/consultationPdf/web/o000/181.pdf 1914] with it.  
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* Ross catalogue [http://www.cameraeccentric.com/html/info/ross_1.html ''The Choice of a Lens''], about 1922, at [http://www.cameraeccentric.com/index.html Camera Eccentric]
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* Ross catalogue [https://www.cameraeccentric.com/static/img/pdfs/ross_1.pdf ''The Choice of a Lens''], about 1922, at [https://www.cameraeccentric.com/ Camera Eccentric]
  
 
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[[Category: Lens makers]]

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Ross was a British company, founded in 1830.[1] It is well known for its camera lenses and binoculars. Ross had an early close association with Carl Zeiss in Jena, Zeiss licensed some Ross patent designs particularly for EWA lenses and in turn Ross had a license for the British Empire to make some Carl Zeiss lens types. Zeiss built a factory in London, mainly to produce binoculars, but some camera lenses appear to have been produced. The factory was taken over by Ross during the First World War. Ross also made some cameras, from about 1855 to the 1910s.[2] In 1948 or 1949, Ross was merged into Barnet Ensign (the successor of Houghton-Butcher) to form Barnet Ensign Ross Ltd., which became Ross Ensign Ltd. in 1954.[3] The new company continued the production of the Ensign cameras and of the Ross lenses; the production of cameras was dropped in 1961 but the company continued for some time to sell Ross optical devices such as binoculars or enlarging lenses.[4]

Products

Cameras

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Ross Twin Lens Reflex Camera (1905)
Deutsches Technikmuseum
image by Danipuntocom (Image rights)

For the cameras made by Barnet Ensign Ross and later by Ross Ensign, see Houghton and Ensign.

  • Sutton's Panoramic Camera, 1861[5]
  • Wet-plate sliding-box cameras, mono and stereo[5]
  • Wet-plate tailboard cameras, mono and stereo
  • 'Portable Divided' camera (TLR, 1890)[6]
  • Portable Twin-lens Camera (TLR, 1895)[7]
  • Ross Focal Plane Camera (strut folding press camera)


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1913 advertisement for
Universal Symmetric Anastigmat
scanned by Uwe Kulick  (Image rights)
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Homocentric, advertised as winter lens
scanned by Uwe Kulick  (Image rights)

Lenses

Names of Ross lenses:

  • Cabinet
  • Combinable
  • Definex
  • Homocentric
  • Symmetrical
  • Telecentric
  • Teleros
  • Universal Symmetric Anastigmat
  • Xpres
  • Xtralux

See their 39mm screw lenses and their Contax lenses. See here for dating the serial numbers of Ross lenses.


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Ross lenses: Combinable, Xpres and Homocentric; all these were also made as
in-shutter versions, and in sunk mounts for hand-held reflex cameras.
scanned by Uwe Kulick  (Image rights)
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No. 6 Symmetrical
with aperture dial
image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)


Notes

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Ross camera lens with shutter
image by Alan Bekhuis (Image rights)
  1. ↑ Channing and Dunn, p.107.
  2. ↑ Channing and Dunn, pp.108–9.
  3. ↑ Channing and Dunn, p.21, McKeown, p.393.
  4. ↑ Channing and Dunn, p.21.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover)., p861.
  6. ↑ Portable Divided Camera at Early Photography: standard model from 1890 and de-luxe model with extension back, from 1897; both for 4x5-inch plates, with Rapid Symmetrical combinable lenses and a single front door.
  7. ↑ Portable Twin-lens Camera (serial no. 2!) for 2½x3½-inch plates, about 1895, also with Rapid Symmetrical lenses, and with double front doors; sold at the sixteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 5 December 2009.

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 Pp.21–2 and 107–9.
  • McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). pp 393 and 861.

Links

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