New British made camera website

[IanG]

Just a quick post to say I've started working on a website dedicated to Thornton Pickard and and other pre-WWII British cameras. Some of you may know I specialise in restoring Thornton Pickard roller blind shutters but I also have some Thornton Pickard Reflex cameras as well as a Triple Imperial.

The other major UK manufacturer Houghton, (later to become Houghton-Butcher, Ensign and then Ross Ensign) will also be well catered for as well but the websites aimed to cover all Pre-WWII British manufacturers. The emphasis will be on Field and Press (reflex) cameras

I'm looking for a few pages in contributors, PM or email if interesested.

Because the website is aimed at users of pre-WII cameras as such it's quite different to APUG, this website and others, with more specific aims like the Graflex Forum, MPP Users Club etc.

I should add there's already Domain name an a few pages in place, when there's sufficient content it'll go live.

Ian

[Jody_S]

Are you looking to catalogue British cameras? So you would be looking for a description and a few photos of a given camera, or you're looking for people with extensive knowledge of British camera makers so you can identify and describe cameras?

[Dan Fromm]

Sort of Channing & Dunn set to music, with more and better detail?

[Drew Bedo]

Some pretty good LF csmeras are made in the UK today too. Why not include a user group for them as well?

[IanG]

Are you looking to catalogue British cameras? So you would be looking for a description and a few photos of a given camera, or you're looking for people with extensive knowledge of British camera makers so you can identify and describe cameras?

It would be a huge task to catalogue all the British made LF camera particularly as there are many variations and it would duplicate good sites like earlyphotography.co.uk, so no that's never been the idea.

Helping to identify cameras is quite a different proposition. I had a hard task trying to determine the manufacturer of my first Quarter plate camera, however all the searching meant that it was quite simple to identify my next acquisitions.

There's a need to share information on cameras and particularly restorations etc. There's currently a few of us on another Forum restoring Thornton Pickard Reflex cameras and unlike Graflex cameras there's no information online to aid us, I'm also restoring a Dallmeyer Reflex camera (made by Ensign) and an Ensign. Others have restored MPP MicroPress and Goerz Tenax etc, again with FP shutters.

Ian