Ross
From Camerapedia.org
| British companies | ||
| Adams & Co. | Agilux | APeM | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beck | Boots | Butcher | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dixons | Dollond | Gandolfi | Gnome | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lizars | MPP | Newman & Guardia | Perken Son & Rayment | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Watkins | Watson | Wray |
Ross was a British company, founded in 1830.[1] It is well known for its camera lenses and binoculars. At some time, it had a license for the British Empire to make lens types of Carl Zeiss. It 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]
Contents |
Products
Cameras
For the cameras made by Barnet Ensign Ross and later by Ross Ensign, see Houghton and Ensign.
- Ross Focal Plane Camera (strut folding press camera)
 Homocentric, advertised as winter lens |
Lenses
Names of Ross lenses:
- Cabinet
- Combinable
- Definex
- Homocentric
- Telecentric
- Teleros
- Xpres
- Xtralux
See their 39mm screw lenses and their Contax lenses.
 Ross lenses: Combinable, XPres and Homocentric |
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.
