Goerz Pocket Tenax

Goerz Pocket Tenax

The camera belongs to a friend. It is a Goerz Pocket Tenax folding plate camera manufactured by C. P. Goerz of Berlin about 100 years ago. The lens an F6.8 Syntor with 5 inch focal length. The compound shutter and aperture control works and the bellows appears light tight. The camera needs only a trip to a good shop for a careful cleaning and lubrication to be fully functional.

The camera kit includes a 7x5x3 inch wooden carrying case and numbered 3.25 x 4.25 inch glass film plate holders.

Camerapedia has this to say about C.P. Goerz

C. P. Goerz was founded in 1886 by Carl Paul Goerz (1854-1923), a salesman who once had been in apprenticeship at Emil Busch in Rathenow and later was partner of Eugen Krauss in Paris. Originally Goerz sold mathematical tools for schools, since 1887 also cameras. By taking over F. A. Hintze's workshop in 1888 his company became a camera maker itself, named Optische Anstalt C. P. Goerz since 1890. It was based in Berlin.

I have posted a few other pictures of this camera to a set called C P Goerz Camera Check them out.

Should anybody have any more information about this camera, please leave a comment.

You can learn more about plate cameras and how they operate at licm.org.uk

Goerz Pocket Tenax Kit

Conspiracy Theory

Who knew that Kenn Starr had a company in India? Or that Monica was part of an diabolical plot to sell butter?


Billboard seen in Mumbai in 1998.

I have placed a few pictures taken in and around Mumbai, India in 1998 into a photo set on my Flickr site. Clicking HERE or on the photo above will take you to the photo set.

Google Image Search Games

The Cars of the Beast

The full story is found here

Google is playing games with you.

People from all over the world are arriving at this post from a Google Image Search for "The Cars of the Beast" or similar. Folks click on the thumbnail image of one of the photos you see in the slideshow. But instead of the pictures in my post, Google sends them to a picture of my granddaughter or to a Bob Dylan Video. Not exactly what they were looking for.

It's all part of the Great Google Conspiracy and now I'm on to them. Follow the link under the slideshow to see the post and learn a bit more about the cars. Or, depending on how you got here, pull your scroll bar down two posts.

Watch Google search play games with the Cars of the Beast at Search Me, WTF? Google

Paranoid Blues Birthday

But something is happening here and we don’t know what it is do we Mr. Jones? ... "there must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief. ... Keep a clean nose, watch the plain clothes and you won't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. ... But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, All the pigeons gonna run to him.

My apologies to Bob Dylan
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The Cars of the Beast ?

Seen on opening day at the Dubai Autodrome

Bad in Black, Lamborghini 666

I was told that these cars are owned by Dubai's Sheik Maktoum. He drove a U.S. made Viper in the feature race on that opening day. I don't recall where he finished. I thought it was a bold and gutsy, in your face move, to put the "Number of the Beast" on the cars. Classy. And the Viper was nice too.

Porsche Carrera GT 666

In Dubai auto “number plates” are sold by auction. Highly sought after low numbers and auspicious numbers can bring more than a million dollars.

Millions Spent on UAE Car Number Plates 18 February 2008

In Dubai more than $US7m was spent on the car number plate bearing the number 98. Of course that was small change compared to the $US14m spent by one Emiriti in Abu Dhabi on a number plate bearing the number 1.

Porsche Carrera GT 666-2

It's my guess that the license plate numbers costs as much as the cars. American's might pay an extra $100 for a vanity plate. In the U.A.E. it's a much bigger deal. Millions can be spent for that special number. Check out these articles from Dubai's Gulf News:

Dubai number plate auction generates Dh41m ($11.162 million U.S.)

A number of two-digit numbers, 89, 43, 61 and 78, were on offer, 43 and 61 toping the list by generating Dh2.3 million ($626,ooo U.S.) each. The four numbers were sold for a total of Dh11,14 million. ($3.033 million U.S.)

Dubai holds special number plate auction

Dubai: Number Plate G 16 broke all records of Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) special number plates auction when it was sold for Dh5 million ($1.36 million U.S.) Friday, according to RTA.

You can read an earlier post about my day at the Dubai Autodrome in A Day at the Races Check it out.

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Update: April 16^th, 2009

As of this date, this post has now been viewed by folks from 100 different countries. Check it out at And Haiti makes 100 on LostBob's Blog.

See why this post is the most popular on this blog at Search Me, WTF Google?