[pure-silver] Re: Meyer-Gorlitz
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Subject: [pure-silver] Meyer-Gorlitz
I have been given a Meyer-Gorlitz lens with a Compur shutter. 

Where can I find some information on  this comabination?

Thanks
Alan  Tippett
Hugo Meyer of Gorlitz was a medium sized optical house supplying lenses for many cameras. They also made a rangefinder for Speed Graphics and similar cameras. Compur shutters are very common and were used by all lensmakers for better quality lenses. Meyer made lenses of a number of generic types. The lens should have some name on it other than just the Meyer name. The most likely at f/4.5 are the Aristostigmat, a double-Gauss type with four air spaced elements with all surfaces concave to the stop, or the Primotar, a Tessar type. Meyer lenses had a good reputation. I have no serial number information for Meyer but the shutter will give a very rough clue. If it is a "dial set" Compur, with a small wheel at the top for adjusting speed it was made before 1930. If its a "rim set" shutter with the familiar speed ring around the periphery it was made after 1930. Some further dating can be done if its a plain Compur, a Compur-Rapid, Synchro-Compur, etc. Meyer continued to make lenses after WW-2 but Gorlitz fell into the Russian zone of Germany so the lenses are more common on East German made cameras like the Exakta. 

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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