W. Butcher & Son, Rapid Rectilinear

[Chauncey Walden]

This thread got me curious and I believe I have tracked my Aldis-Butcher 7 inch f/3.4 lens to a 1930ish (Houghton-Butcher) Ensign Special Reflex quarter plate camera. Having done that I guess I am going to have to mount the lens on my 3 1/4x 4 1/4 Graflex and give it a try. So, by then Aldis were supplying lenses to what the Butchers had become.

[Steven Tribe]

A very comprehensive history of Butcher is available on the excellent early photography website (and Aldis, too).


http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/companies.html#B