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− | '''Wray''' was a British optical company formed in 1850 | + | '''Wray''' was a British optical company formed in 1850,<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/companies5.html#W Company Notes] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography].</ref> and best known for lenses used in other makers' cameras. Wray made a couple of cameras after World War II, most notably the 35mm SLR [[Wrayflex]], and sold the [[Graflex Stereo Graphic]] camera under its own name. |
Revision as of 21:08, 9 October 2014
Wray was a British optical company formed in 1850,[1] and best known for lenses used in other makers' cameras. Wray made a couple of cameras after World War II, most notably the 35mm SLR Wrayflex, and sold the Graflex Stereo Graphic camera under its own name.
Wray advertisement, BJ Almanac 1954 scanned by Nesster (Image rights) |
Lenses
- Lustrar: anastigmat composed of four elements, arranged as positive-negative-negative-positive. Early Photography lists a 135 mm f/4.8 example(for the Wrayflex)[2] Greenleaf lists it as an f/4.5[3][4][5]
- Platystigmat (seen on some of J.T. Chapman's 'British' cameras)
- Rapid Rectilinears including the Detective (seen on some of Chapman's cameras)[6]
- Supar: a simple triplet, most used as an enlarging lens.[3]
- Unilite: similar to the Lustrar, but with cemented negative elements.[3]
- Copying/CRT lens: an f/1 lens for photographing oscilloscope traces etc.[7]
3-inch Platystigmat image by John-Henry Collinson (Image rights) |
4¼-inch f/4.5 Supar enlarging lens image by John-Henry Collinson (Image rights) |
Wray Stereo Graphic c.1959 image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
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 |
Notes
- ↑ Company Notes at Early Photography.
- ↑ f/4.8 Lustrar at Early Photography; no picture.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Greenleaf, Allen R. (1950) Photographic Optics, Macmillan, New York, pp201-8.
- ↑ 135 mm f/4.8 Lustrar for the Wrayflex, sold at Auction 41 by LP Foto Auktioner, on 28 April 2012.
- ↑ Newman & Guardia New Special Sibyl 6x9 camera, with 4¼-inch f/4.5 Lustrar, sold at LP Foto Auktioner's Auction 41.
- ↑ Rapid Rectilinear lenses at Early Photography.
- ↑ 2-inch f/1 CRT lens at Early Photography: diagram, but no photograph.
Links
- Wray Stereo instruction manual at www.orphancameras.com