[LargeFormat] cult lenses

[Stuart Phillips]

Yes, the Aldis Lamp. I hadn't connected them with the projectors. I wonder
who took them over or whether they just went out of business? They don't
seem to be trading in Birmingham now.

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From: "philip lambert" <philip.lambert@ntlworld.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] cult lenses


> Ross made some decent lenses and I had an Ensign Selfix with a Ross Xpres
> that was a Tessar type and worked well. The Epsilon shutter gave no
trouble
> but they have a mixed reputation and a strange flash plug.
> I had a couple of wideangle Dallmeyer halfplate lenses that I mounted on
the
> front of a Compur. I bought then from an old man who used them to take
> industrial monochrome photos on a plate camera. He showed me two that were
> very sharp; he used a handheld photoflood which he shone on different
parts
> of the subject "until I think it's sufficient" !
> Aldis made a WW2 naval signalling light.   I guess it's the same Aldis
that
> made slide projectors later.PL
> >
> > As for English lenses, Aldis brothers were making a variety of lenses in
> on
> > Sarehole St, Sparkhill, Birmingham (if anyone knows the area) in the
late
> > 1930s - early 1940s, according to Kingslake in his chapter in Henney and
> > Dudley's "Handbook of Photography". These lenses included aero,
> > photomicrography, portrait and wide-angle lenses. Cooke Optics are more
> well
> > known, of course, http://www.cookeoptics.com/
>
>
>
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