The Box Tengor has a reputation as being one of the better box cameras. This is the 54/2 version, which produces 6x9 negatives on 120 film. The Box Tengor was a product of Zeiss, one of the most legendary names in photographic history. The Tengor was produced in various forms from the 1920s- 1950's, this version was produced from 1934-1938. Unlike most box cameras, the camera could be focused to different distances by the use of supplementary lenses that are moved into place inside the camera, it also had a choice of three apertures.
I took the camera to the old portion of David's Cemetery here in Kettering. I didn't close the camera correctly so a few of these images have some slight light leaks as as a result.
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There's something about the old cemeteries that always makes me think. Take William here, he lived through both the Civil War and WWI. During his lifetime the frontier was closed, for most of his life electricity was a rarity, he might have never lived in a house with it. For much of his life flight was just a dream, yet he lived to see the invention of airplanes. There is even a chance he knew the Wright Brothers who lived and worked here in Dayton.
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WIth time old headstones can get displaced by growing trees that might have been just saplings when they were first placed on the ground, the trees might have not even been around back then.
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This stone has had a hard life, but at least someone cared enough to put it back together again when it broke.
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