The smallest was the Baby Box Tengor which took 34 images on 127 roll film, 64.5 and 69 on 120 roll film, and 6.511 on 116 roll film, and would remain in production until at least 1956.

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This is the third version of the original Box-Tengor, featuring larger viewfinders and an updated design.

The Zeiss-Ikon Box-Tengor was a higher quality box camera compared to inexpensive models made by Kodak and other companies.

Featuring an all metal body, a higher quality doublet lens, adjustable apertures, and a shutter lock, it would have been considered a top of the line box camera for those looking for box camera simplicity, but better images.

The Box-Tengor lineup continued after World War II and stayed in production until 1956.

Featuring an all metal body, doublet lens, adjustable focus, adjustable fstops, a threaded shutter release, a shutter release lock, and large and bright viewfinders, this was one of the highest end box cameras of its day and still a capable shooter today.

The Box-Tengor was produced over the course of nearly 30 years, and all are desirable by collectors, so if you ever have a chance to pick one up at a reasonable price, I highly recommend it.

Companies like Voigtlnder, Zeiss, Leitz, and Deckel all pioneered designs that would further the progress of the optics and camera industries worldwide.

Perhaps one of the largest such mergers occurred in 1926 when four different Dresden based camera makers would all merge together with an infusion of capital from the Carl Zeiss Foundation to form an all new company, known as Zeiss-Ikon.

The four companies that would make up this new company were Contessa-Nettel AG, Ernemann, Goerz, and ICA (who themselves were a previous merger of 4 different companies).

Of those 4 companies, the one I want to focus on for this article is Goerz, or C.

P. Goerz.

Goerz quickly established himself as a quality lens maker and in after only 2 years in operation, took over the workshop of another German lens company and eventually became known as Optische Anstalt C.

P. Goerz. In a short amount of time, Goerz was producing at least a dozen different lens designs, from simple single element lenses all the way to their top of the line 6-element Goerz Dagor.

Beyond lenses, Goerz was also an accomplished camera maker with everything from simple box cameras to roll film and plate cameras.

Simply called Anschtz shutters, these roller shutters had a top speed of 11000 second which was blazing fast for the time.

Folding and box cameras with focal plane Anschtz shutters were usually called Ango cameras, where Ango is a combination of both Anschtz and Goerz.

These cameras all had leaf shutters, and came with the widest variety of Goerz lenses, all the way up to the top of the line Dagor.

In this category were simple box and folding cameras with simple shutters and single or double element lenses.

This new camera would have a Frontar Doublet lens, a single speed shutter and were made entirely of metal.

During the 1920s, photography was becoming increasingly affordable by non-professional photographers, so simple box cameras like the Box-Tengor and others made by Kodak and dozens of other companies were hot commodities.

After an initial attempt to sell the company to Kodak, the company agreed to become one of the four companies to merge with Zeiss and become Zeiss-Ikon.

As they did with other pre-merger companies, most of Goerzs staff and personnel were absorbed by other Zeiss-Ikon entities, but a few products continued to be produced under their own name.

Although initially discontinued, the Dagor name was brought back as the Zeiss-Ikon Goerz Dagor in 1932 and offered in a variety of sizes and speeds.

In addition to the Dagor, Zeiss kept the Box-Tengor, and would eventually reuse the Tenax name in a future line of cameras.

Zeiss Ikon History