Golly! Now that I've learned Zeiss didn't do the Tengor line any favours in buying Goerz out, I look at my two Zeiss Tengors with disdain and contempt. Still, I now have them loaded with 120 film and plan to take them out for a spin this weekend. Best wishes - as always - to you, Mrs. Cameras and Coffee, and Steinbeck.
Gotta love these old cameras. I have a Brownie 2A that is in lovely condition and in its original canvas bag which is also in fine fettle. Haven't shot with it yet, waiting for bright days. It takes 116 so I'll need to use an adapter. Truly enjoyed your explanation of how to use the Goerz.
Thank you! For 116, there's a Kodak Brownie 616 video coming up early next month and the process for using 120 is a 116 camera will be fairly similar to that described in the 616.
I have a 56/2. It's an absolute monster for a big camera. One question. I know the early zeiss boxes were f11-16-22. And the 56/2 was 9-11-16. How do you measure to get the apertures to be 9-16-22? Thanks!
The oldest of the box cameras used a different system than we use today. The one in this video used the Goerz system in which Goerz 9 was what we call f/9. All the other numbers were different. So I used a reference chart to check what the old Goerz numbers were. Here's a read-only link to a spreadsheet I developed of the obsolete aperture systems I know of and a comparison with the one we use today: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dag1NbbKHn0OkzScplra0_AqebgSER5iU4Pt21jHg2Y/edit?usp=sharing
