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Specifications of type 54/2, later version: | Specifications of type 54/2, later version: | ||
* Type: Box camera | * Type: Box camera | ||
− | * Manufacturer: Zeiss Ikon (product line taken over from [[Goerz]]) | + | * Manufacturer: [[Zeiss Ikon]] (product line taken over from [[Goerz]]) |
* Years of production: 1934-38 | * Years of production: 1934-38 | ||
* Film: [[120]] roll film | * Film: [[120]] roll film | ||
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* [http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/zeiss/tengor/54.htm Box Tengor] in [http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/rindex.htm Pacific Rim's Photographica pages] | * [http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/zeiss/tengor/54.htm Box Tengor] in [http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/pp/rindex.htm Pacific Rim's Photographica pages] | ||
* [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 | ||
[[Category: German 6x9 box]] | [[Category: German 6x9 box]] | ||
[[Category: Zeiss Ikon]] | [[Category: Zeiss Ikon]] | ||
[[Category: Goerz]] | [[Category: Goerz]] |
Revision as of 01:10, 31 March 2010
4.5x6cm 1932-39 54 & 6x9 1934-38 54/2 models, 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
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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 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