Goerz-Anschütz Ango

Goerz-Anschütz Ango c.1906, a late model

Goerz-Anschütz Ango is a series of strut folding plate film medium format to large format camera manufactured by Goerz, and produced between c.1896-1922. Camera introduced in 1896 as a Anschütz camera.

At early times, Goerz's specialty were cameras with the fast rouleau shutter that the company had licensed exclusively from its inventor Ottomar Anschütz from Lissa in Posen (at that time a province of Germany).

A long running series of such cameras was named after 1905 as Ango, a word derivation for Anschütz and Goerz with some improvements.

Typical elements of these cameras were a set of controls at one side of the camera body since early focal plane shutters needed more than one control element to set the speed. A combination of slit width setting and rouleau speed setting gave the shutter speed. Until 1905 the slit width had to be set inside the camera. On the opposite side of the camera was its grip.

Goerz-Anschutz Ango c.1896, an early modelimage by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

Some features

• Lenses: mainly Dagor, Dogmar, Syntor, and Celor, crosshairs on the front lens
• Formats: more common 9x12, 10x15, 13x18cm
• Shutter: Ottomar Anschütz rouleau shutter as a focal plane shutter
• Viewfinder: collapsible optical Newton finder
• Characteristic type of struts

Goerz-Anschütz Ango High-Speed image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

Other models

• Ango High-Speed
  • It was still marketed in 1922, for plate sizes 9x12, 10x13, 10x15 and 13x18, with Dogmar f/4.5 lens
• Ango Jagd-Reflex (German Jagd = hunting)
• Ango Luxus
• Ango Stereo
• Ango Stereo Luxus
• Goerz-Anschütz Box (Moment-Apparat
• Goerz-Anschütz Klappkamera

Goerz-Anschütz Ango Jagd-Reflex image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

Goerz-Anschütz Ango Luxus image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

Links

• in Historic Camera
• Anschütz Kameras of Goerz at www.ottomar-anschuetz.deC[1]
• Goerz Anschutz 13x18 at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr