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Zeiss Box Tengors
Zeiss Box Tengor Box Cameras Were Rightly Regarded As The 'Rolls-Royces' Of Box Cameras, Although That Perhaps Should Be More Correctly The 'Mercedes-Benzes'. However, To Be Honest They Were Also The Most Expensive Box Cameras On Sale Anywhere. They Predate Even The 1926 Zeiss-Ikon Name, In That They Were Made Before Then By Goerz., Which Is The Reason Their Lenses Were Labelled 'Goerz Frontar'.
My Four Tengors Are, From L To R: A 1930 Type 54/2; A 1936 Later Type 54/2; A 1950 Type 55/2; And A 1956 Type 56/2. All Use 120 Reel Film In 6 X 9 cm Format - Although There Were Others In Smaller And Larger Formats. The Small IB In The Foreground Is An Original 1933 Edition In English For The Types 54, 54/2 and 54/15.
Surprisingly Perhaps, The Rarest Of All These Four Is The 55/2 Which Was Made For Barely A Year Before Bieng Replaced By The 56/2.
Zeiss Box Tengors
Zeiss Box Tengor Box Cameras Were Rightly Regarded As The 'Rolls-Royces' Of Box Cameras, Although That Perhaps Should Be More Correctly The 'Mercedes-Benzes'. However, To Be Honest They Were Also The Most Expensive Box Cameras On Sale Anywhere. They Predate Even The 1926 Zeiss-Ikon Name, In That They Were Made Before Then By Goerz., Which Is The Reason Their Lenses Were Labelled 'Goerz Frontar'.
My Four Tengors Are, From L To R: A 1930 Type 54/2; A 1936 Later Type 54/2; A 1950 Type 55/2; And A 1956 Type 56/2. All Use 120 Reel Film In 6 X 9 cm Format - Although There Were Others In Smaller And Larger Formats. The Small IB In The Foreground Is An Original 1933 Edition In English For The Types 54, 54/2 and 54/15.
Surprisingly Perhaps, The Rarest Of All These Four Is The 55/2 Which Was Made For Barely A Year Before Bieng Replaced By The 56/2.