What are your favorite Goerz?

[E. von Hoegh]

I've never used the Goerz lenses, but only their immediate Kern dagor successors, which have no focus shift issues and are
more contrasy than any plasmat I've ever owned, or even any other lens of any format I've ever used. I've heard people claim
the late Goerz Trigors were made by Kern, but don't see any evidence of that. Has anyone seen "Made in Switzerland" on a
Trigor?

Yes, in person and here - http://www.largeformatphotography.in...t=goerz+trigor

[Drew Wiley]

That's correct, Jan. The single-coated Kern 360 has about the same contrast as a multi-coated plastmat, but the MC Kern was
way over top - wonderful hue differentiation and microtonality, but almost unusable with transparency films. I sold mine off in preference of the single-coated version, which also happens to have a Copal 3S shutter, which I greatly prefer to the Compur 3 the MC version came in.

[Jody_S]

I think I have 6 Dagors and 2 clones. I like all of them, but the 120mm on 4x5 is my favorite. Tiny lens, sharp, beautiful tonality.

[patrickjames]

The Artars are my favorite lenses, although right not I don't own any. I used to have a 24" back when I had an 8x10 but I sold it years ago. A few years ago when I decided to get back to LF film I went looking for Artars, but they got expensive in the years previous. I do have an APO-Ronar that is in a shutter and spaced for infinity, which is a spectacular lens that I tripped over for a song, that I couldn't pass up. I like Dialytes.

A friend of mine has just about every practical APO Artar, all put in shutters at great expense over the years by Grimes. He loves them too, obviously!

[Ken Lee]

It would be great to see some images made with these lenses. Please share

[Serge S]

You read my thoughts Ken

[Jan Pedersen]

Ok, i will bite with a first. 240 GD

[Ken Lee]

That is lovely ! Sharp and smooth... like butter :-)

[Scott Davis]

I have just one, a 110mm (4 3/8") Goerz Am.Opt. W.A. Dagor. It will cover 5x7 with movement, missing the corners of 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 wide open. It MIGHT illuminate the whole plate stopped down to f32, but the edges would still be soft. I love it as a wide for 5x7.

[Jan Pedersen]

Thank you Ken.
Here's another one taken with the 210, slightly cropped due to bellows intrusion. North Shore Salton Sea.