Ronford Baker

Ronford-Baker Engineering was founded in 1966 by Ron Ford, a camera rental business owner and a talented engineer by the name of Harry Baker. Today, the company is known for their award-winning heavy duty tripods, but back then, the outfit started as a camera maintenance facility and their expertise quickly developed a reputation for excellence and ingenuity. Soon the company started creating modified and specialised equipment for major Hollywood productions such as "James Bond", and Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" among many others.

Ronford-Baker then designed and developed the first fluid head with variable levels of fluid damping, whose patented designed was internationally recognised and awarded with a Technical Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Years later, with the introduction of a counterbalance system Ronford-Baker introduced their now-legendary "2000" family of fluid heads and support systems - 2003, 2004, 2015, and 2030. The company's newest range, the ATLAS, has all the tried and tested attributes that Ronford-Baker was built on, strength, service life and reliability, and adds the functionality demanded by the modern industry. These include a 180 degrees of tilt, variable fluid power including ‘free’ running, infinitely variable counterbalance, and massive payload capability. All whilst maintaining the effortlessly fluid feel synonymous with Ronford-Baker heads.