Wray
Wray advertisement, BJ Almanac 1954 scanned by Nesster (Image rights) |
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.
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) |
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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.