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 . 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)

Images

• Goerz Tenax
• Goerz Tenax. Dogmar 1:6,3 F=135mm
• Goerz Tenax. With a red nice spirit level.
• Goerz Tenax. Carl Paul Goerz initials.

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Links

• Goerz Taro-Tenax at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr]]
• Goerz Taro Tenax in aparatyanalogowe.pl