Goerz Taro Tenax

Goerz Taro Tenax image by Eugene Ilchenko (Image rights)

The Goerz Taro-Tenax is a series of folding bed plate medium format to large format film camera, manufactured by Optische Anstalt C.P. Goerz AG. Friedenau, Berlin, Germany and produced between c1912-1926 .^[1] Many variations were made over the production duration and similar to Manufoc-Tenax but cheaper.

Some features

Body: leather covered aluminium
Bellows: single extension (9x12cm Model I), and double extension (9x12cm Model II, 10x15cm and 13x18cm)
With Rack and pinion vertical adjustment
Brilliant frame finder centered over lens standard w/spirit-level
With accurate focusing scale
Formats: 9x12, 10x15, 13x18 cm.
- 9x12cm format with Models I-II-III
There were many lens/shutter combinations
- Lenses: Kalostigmat, Dagor, Dogmar, Tenastigmat, Celor, Syntor and Trilentar
- Shutters: Ibsor, Compur, Pronto, Compound, Koilos and Celor

Goerz Taro Tenax probably after 1914

w/ shutter Ica Akt.-Ges. Extra-Rapid-Aplanat and lens Helios this combination seems not to be the original shutter and lens for this camera image by Bogdi (Image rights)