Box Tengor

4.5x6cm 1932-39 54 & 6x9 1934-38 54/2 models image by AWCam (Image rights)

Box cameras were dedicated to photographic beginners. Some models of Goerz's and later Zeiss Ikon's Box-Tengor series were more sophisticated models of such beginners cameras, with simple distance and aperture preselection. Different Tengors were offered for the film formats 116, 120 and 129.

Specifications of type 54/2, later version:

• Type: Box camera
• Manufacturer: Zeiss Ikon (product line taken over from Goerz)
• Years of production: 1934-38
• Film: 120 roll film
• Lens: Goerz Frontar
• Shutter: single speed
• Aperture: switchable: 1:11, 1:16 or 1:22
• Focusing: switchable: 1m, 3m+, 8m+
• Viewfinder: two built-in brilliant finders, one for vertical, one for horizontal image format

6x9 54/2, 1928-34 model image by Rick Soloway (Image rights)

6x9 Box-Tengor 54/2, 1934-38 model image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

6x9 Box-Tengor 56/2, 1948-56 model image by Alf Sigaro (Image rights)

Links

• GOERZ Box-Tengor (1925) at Ken Lyndrup's [1]
• Images of a Box Tengor 54/2 by Michael Vogel
• Pages of the camera collection by Sylvain Halgand:
  • Box Tengor 54/2 (1926–28)
  • Box Tengor 54/2 (1928–34)
  • Box Tengor 54/2 (1934–38)
  • Box Tengor 54 (1934–38)
• Box Tengor in Pacific Rim's Photographica pages
• Box Tengor in the Virtual Camera Museum at www.virtualcameramuseum.com
• Out of the Box Tengor - Flickr group of pictures of and from Box Tengors