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.

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

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 Lyndrups Collection of photo-curios (archived)
• Images of a Box Tengor 54/2 (archived) by Michael Vogel
• Pages of the camera collection by Sylvain Halgand (in French):
  • Box Tengor 54/2 (1926–28)
  • Box Tengor 54 (1934–38)
• Box Tengor in Pacific Rim's Photographica pages
• Out of the Box Tengor - Flickr group of pictures of and from Box Tengors
• Box Tengor PDF manual at Butkus' OrphanCameras.com