C.P. 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 Ango, an abbreviation for Anschütz and Goerz. The series was started in 1894 (maybe not yet named "Ango"?). The cameras were strut folding cameras, equipped with the fast Ottomar Anschütz rouleau shutter as a focal plane shutter. 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.
The cameras had a characteristic type of struts as well as a typical collapsible optical viewfinder with crosshairs on the front lens. Reflex models were available as well as stereo models.
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| Goerz Ango 13x18 with Doppel-Anastigmat lens, and the shutter rouleau signed with facsimile autograph "Ottomar Anschütz, Lissa/Posen" | |
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| advertised as High-Speed Ango in 1922 | camera with plates |
As High-Speed Ango it was still marketed in 1922, for plate sizes 3 1/4 x 4/1/4", 4x5", 5x7" and 10x15cm , and equipped with Goerz Dogmar f-4.5 lens. Other models were the Ango Jagd-Reflex, the Ango Luxus, the Ango Stereo and the Ango Stereo Luxus.
Links
- Anschütz Kameras of Goerz at www.ottomar-anschuetz.de [1]
- Goerz Anschutz 13x18 at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr