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The '''Klapp-Taschen-Camera''', from the early 20th century, is a wooden-bodied strut-folding camera with nickel-plated metalwork and a leather bellows with a single, broad pleat. It has a good quality lens (the examples seen have a [[Goerz]] Dagor with helical focusing to about two metres), and a [[focal plane shutter]] with a range of speeds.<ref name=W1>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Goldmann-Klapp-Taschen-Kamera/AI-15-18448 9x12 cm Klapp-Taschen-Kamera], serial no. 12108, with 120 mm f/6.8 Goerz Dagor series III, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-15/ fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 23 May 2009.</ref><ref name=W2>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Goldmann-Klapp-Taschen-Kamera/AI-19-12838 9x12 cm Klapp-Taschen-Kamera], serial no. 13143, with 120 mm f/6.8 Dagor series III, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-19/ nineteenth Westlicht auction], on 28 May 2011.</ref>  The lens-board allows front rise (when the camera is oriented horizontally). There is a collapsible [[viewfinder#Newton finder|Newton type finder]] and a spirit level on the top of the body. The camera has two tripod bushes.
  
The '''Klapp-Taschen-Camera''' was a fine example of [[Goldmann]]'s fine amateur cameras. It was a strut folding camera with sophisticated focusable [[lens]], collapsible Newton type [[viewfinder|finder]] and [[focal plane shutter]]. It was available four sizes, for the formats 9x12cm, 9x18cm, 12x16&frac12;cm and 13x18cm.
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It was available in four sizes for 9x12cm, 9x18cm, 12x16&frac12;cm and 13x18cm plates. One 9x12 example sold at Westlicht has a roll-film back (covering the full ''width'' of the format; it is perhaps for 8x12 cm), also by Goldmann.<ref name=W2/> This fits around the camera body, covering the folding finder, but comes with its own spirit level and detachable Newton finder.
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Latest revision as of 16:12, 27 January 2024

The Klapp-Taschen-Camera, from the early 20th century, is a wooden-bodied strut-folding camera with nickel-plated metalwork and a leather bellows with a single, broad pleat. It has a good quality lens (the examples seen have a Goerz Dagor with helical focusing to about two metres), and a focal plane shutter with a range of speeds.[1][2] The lens-board allows front rise (when the camera is oriented horizontally). There is a collapsible Newton type finder and a spirit level on the top of the body. The camera has two tripod bushes.

It was available in four sizes for 9x12cm, 9x18cm, 12x16½cm and 13x18cm plates. One 9x12 example sold at Westlicht has a roll-film back (covering the full width of the format; it is perhaps for 8x12 cm), also by Goldmann.[2] This fits around the camera body, covering the folding finder, but comes with its own spirit level and detachable Newton finder.

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  1. 9x12 cm Klapp-Taschen-Kamera, serial no. 12108, with 120 mm f/6.8 Goerz Dagor series III, sold at the fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 23 May 2009.
  2. 2.0 2.1 9x12 cm Klapp-Taschen-Kamera, serial no. 13143, with 120 mm f/6.8 Dagor series III, sold at the nineteenth Westlicht auction, on 28 May 2011.