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The '''Anschütz-Moment-Apparat''' is a wooden box-form detective camera for 9x12 cm plates, made by [[Goerz]]. McKeown states that the camera was first made in about 1890, but that no examples of this are known to survive.<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}} p354.</ref> A second model was made in about 1892.

The camera body is a simple wooden box, without leather covering. It has a focal-plane shutter, with the controls (and a leather handle) on the right-hand side. The camera's name refers to Ottomar Anschütz, the designer of this shutter; Goerz had exclusive use of the design, and several early Goerz cameras are called either Anschütz or Ango (Anschütz-Goerz).

McKeown shows an example with an Extra Rapid-Lynkeioskop lens, and a folding frame finder.<ref name=McK/> Two examples of this type have also been seen at Westlicht.<ref name=W1>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Goerz-Anschuetz-Detective-Camera/AI-14-17753 Anschütz camera] with Extra Rapid-Lynkeioskop lens and frame-finder, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-14/ fourteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 30 November 2008. The auctioneer's notes state that Anschutz' signature is stamped on the shutter blind.</ref><ref name=W2>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/GOERZ-ANSCHUETZ-Plattenbox/AI-1-21102 Anschütz camera] with Extra Rapid-Lynkeioskop lens and frame-finder, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-1/ first Westlicht auction], on 15 November 2002; the auctioneer's notes include interesting background information about Anschütz' other inventions.</ref> Another example sold at Westlicht has a Goerz Universalaplanat C No. 1 lens, and has a [[viewfinder|Watson finder]] and spirit level on the top;<ref name=W3>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Goerz-Anschuetz-Detektiv-Kamera/AI-19-12776 Anschütz camera] sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-19/ nineteenth Westlicht auction], on 28 May 2011.</ref> (being a plate camera, it could of course also be used with a ground glass focusing screen). This example appears more primitive than the others, having some of the shutter mechanism exposed on the side. 

An advertisment of Goerz in a Dutch Photomagazine<ref>''LUX'' geïllustreerd Tijdschrift voor Fotografie, edition November 1899, p800</ref> from November 1899 gives the following sales information :<br>
Pocket camera for the highest speed, exposures till 1/1000 sec.
Doppel-Anastigmat lens, focal-plane shutter, foldable viewfinder, double extension lensboard.
Formats: 6.5x9, 9x12, 12x16.5, 13x18 cm and stereoscope.


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[[Category: Goerz]]
[[Category: 1890-1899]]
[[Category: German 9x12]]
[[Category: Detective cameras]]
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