The Ensign Ful Vue Super was a total and angular redesign of the earlier cameras to bear the Ful Vue moniker, by now the company was known as Ross Ensign. The Ful Vue Super version adopted and only accepts 620 roll film. Seeking to make assembly as easy and quick as possible the camera was formed by die casting the body in two halves, split vertically along the centre line - the majority of the join being hidden beneath the adhesive name plate. The rear hatch is removable and stamped, folded and rolled from steel sheet, incorporating the time honoured ruby window, with rotating blind. Assembly is in theory is just a case of loading the sub assemblies into one casting, then joining the halves. In practice it's a way more of a challenge though. A steel viewing hood was added to cover the now plastic viewfinder optics but technically the camera had no improvements over previous models. The reflex mirror adhered to previous practice being plated brass rather than glass. A simple over centre sector shutter was used as a complete sub assembly that sits within a cavity formed by the cast shells. The simplest of single element lenses was still used, being able to be focused by rotating the lens surround one half of a turn giving the full range of movement. For the finish, Ross Ensign stayed with the crackle finish black paint, printed aluminium front panel and an embossed and burnished Ross Ensign logo glued into the lens hood, again concentrating their efforts on appearance over function. Ensign failed to regain their pre war heyday and never embracing the coming 35mm tsunami silently faded away in the early 1960s.

Shutter speeds are still T & I,
shutter and lens are little improved over the previous models.
Condition, 5F

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