Goerz Pocket Tenax

Pocket Tenax with Syntor 12.7cm f/6.8 lens in Compound shutter

The Goerz Pocket Tenax is a series of large format folding bed plate film camera, manufactured by Optische Anstalt C.P. Goerz AG. Friedenau, Berlin, Germany and produced around 1910. ^[1]

Its offered in three formats with various lens/shutter combinations.

Do not confuse with Vest Pocket Tenax (Westentaschen Tenax). That is a strut folding camera which is also known as Plate Tenax

Some features[]

Body: aluminum alloy,covered in black leather.
Bellows: double extension bellows
With a diagonal Rack and pinion adjustment and a collapsible finder
Formats: quarter plate 8.3x10.8cm, 10x13cm, and post card 8x13cm
Lenses: Syntor or Dogmar
Shutter: Compound shutter speeds 1-1/250 +B

Goerz Pocket Tenax Images by Bob (Image rights)

Notes and references[]

↑ There is little known about this model, it is not in McKeown's Tenax folding plate cameras chapter p.357 (McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).)

Links[]

[1] There is little known about this model, it is not in McKeown's Tenax folding plate cameras chapter p.357 (McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover).)

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