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* [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/museum/cameras/zeissikon/boxtengor/index.html Box Tengor] in the [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/museum/index.html Virtual Camera Museum] at [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/ www.virtualcameramuseum.com] | * [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/museum/cameras/zeissikon/boxtengor/index.html Box Tengor] in the [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/museum/index.html Virtual Camera Museum] at [http://www.virtualcameramuseum.com/ www.virtualcameramuseum.com] | ||
* [http://www.flickr.com/groups/box-tengor_gallery/ Out of the Box Tengor] - Flickr group of pictures of and from Box Tengors | * [http://www.flickr.com/groups/box-tengor_gallery/ Out of the Box Tengor] - Flickr group of pictures of and from Box Tengors | ||
| + | * [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/zeiss_ikon/zeiss_ikon_box-tengor/zeiss_ikon_box-tengor.htm Box Tengor PDF manual] at [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/index.html Butkus' OrphanCameras.com] | ||
[[Category: German 6x9 box]] | [[Category: German 6x9 box]] | ||
[[Category: Zeiss Ikon]] | [[Category: Zeiss Ikon]] | ||
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| 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.
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| 6x9 Box-Tengor I image by Krasimir Shterev (Image rights) |
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
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Links
- GOERZ Box-Tengor (1925) at Ken Lyndrups Collection of photo-curios
- Images of a Box Tengor 54/2 by Michael Vogel
- Pages of the camera collection by Sylvain Halgand (in French):
- 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
- Box Tengor PDF manual at Butkus' OrphanCameras.com
