Krauss Anastigmaat – Zeiss 8/205mm N°20716 + 3 plates + case | Wetplate camera

wooden plate field camera
lens: E Kraus & Cie Paris - Anastigmat – Zeiss 1.8 F 205 M/M box SGDG No. 20716

Dimensions: camera
Height 25 cm
Width 22 cm
Folded thickness 8 cm
Maximum unfolded: 48 cm

The glass mat plate is missing.

Most foldable wooden travel cameras are characterized by a number of features. The devices are equipped with:
A removable front with an objective lens.
Guides for a sliding wooden panel holder.
A rear hatch with frosted glass
A foldable wooden camera house
A wooden frame with a bellows that can be moved forward and backward in a rail system via gears.
A finish with lacquered brass or nickel-plated brass metalwork.

A camera with the object front fixed to the base plate, while the back can be moved forward and backward.

Lens: E. Krauss Paris) E Kraus & Cie Paris - Anastigmat – Zeiss 1.8 F 205 M/M Box SGDG No. 20716

E. Krauss was a French camera and lens manufacturer, founded in the late 1880s. Founder Eugen Krauss was the brother of G.A. Krauss. The company had a license in 1891 to produce certain lens types from Carl Zeiss. (License S.G.D.G. No. 141, 229 E.Krauss Paris)

The term Anastigmat, which we used for our first lenses, is a scientific term and has been used by various other manufacturers since then. We have abandoned this term and replaced it with 'Protar,' a term that is exclusively specific to our V-, VII-, and VIIa-series lenses. (Source: https://largeformatcameras.net/picture.php?/2122/category/91)
Astigmatism is a lens defect that causes a point of the subject to appear as a line on the focal plane. In anastigmatic lenses, the defect is corrected through a careful combination of lens elements.