Linhof
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| 1966 Catalog image by Voxphoto (Image rights) |
Linhof is a German company, founded in Munich in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and large format film cameras. The company began by making camera shutters, and Linhof developed the leaf shutter, which became part of Compur. Cameras began to be produced from the end of the XIXth century.Currently Linhof is the worlds oldest camera maker.
Nikolaus Karpf was the grand son-in-law of Valentin Linhof, he entered the company in 1934 and was made chief engineer. He would assume ownership of the company within a year of Valentin Linhofs death. Karpf designed the first Technika model, the world's first all-metal folding field camera with adjustable front and rear standards, in 1934 and put it into production the same year. The Technika would quickly become the flagship camera of Linhof and it is what they are most famous for today. Revised models of the Technika are still in production.
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The Technika System
The Technika camera line is based around a modular series of standard lens boards. Accompanying these were focusing cams, interchangeable for different lenses, enabling rangefinder focusing in the manner of a press camera. However the Technika cameras offered a greater range of movements (such as back tilt) than the typical press camera. The Technika name was meant to signify their suitability as technical cameras too, used on a tripod with ground glass focusing when greater control was needed.
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| A Linhof Technika, with system lensboards image by PASPEY (Image rights) |
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| 1962 advertisement scanned by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
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| 1973 advertisement scanned by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Folding bed field cameras
6x9 cm/2¼x3¼"
See also Linhof 6x9.
- Linhof Ur-Technika (1934)
- Linhof Standard II
- Linhof Technika II
- Linhof Technika III, with or without RF
- Linhof Technika IV
- Linhof Super Technika IV
- Linhof Technika 70 (1962)
- Linhof Studienkamera 70
- Linhof Super Technika V = Super Technika 23
9x12 cm/Quarter Plate 3¼x4¼"
- Linhof 34 (1934-1936)
- Linhof Standard II
- Linhof Technika II (1937-1943)
- Linhof Technika Medizin (1937-1943)
9x12 cm/4x5"
- Linhof Technika III, with or without RF (1946)
- Linhof Technika IV (1956)
- Linhof Super Technika IV (1956)
- Linhof Technika V (1963)
- Linhof Super Technika V (1963)
- Linhof Master Technika (1972) = Master Technika Classic
- Linhof Master Technika 2000 (March 1995)
- Linhof Master Technika 3000 (2006)
- Linhof Technika-Flex (TLR attachment for Super Technika V)[1]
10x15 cm/4x6"
- Linhof 34 (1934-1936)
- Linhof Standard II
- Linhof Technika II (1937-1943)
13x18 cm/5x7"
- Linhof Standard II
- Linhof Technika II
- Linhof Technika III, with or without RF
- Linhof Super Technika V (1962-1986)
- Linhof Technika V (1962-1986) without RF
18x24 cm
- Linhof Präzisionskamera 18x24 (Technika) (1937-1943; only 10 pieces made)
- Linhof Präzisionskamera 18x24 (Technika "Medizin" in grey; only 1 item made, for famous German photographers Adolf Lazi and Franz Lazi)
Monorail view cameras
- Linhof Color 4x5
- Linhof Kardan Color
- Linhof Kardan (1974)
- Linhof Technikardan 45 (1984)
- Linhof Kardan GT (1986)
- Linhof Kardan Master GTL (1986)
- Linhof Kardan GTI (1990)
- Linhof Technikardan 45S (April 1993)
- Linhof M679 (1996)
- Linhof Kardan re 45
- Linhof Techno (2008)
Rigid body
- Linhof Technika Press (1956)
- Linhof Weitwinkelkamera 65
- Linhof Technika Press 70 (1963)
- Linhof 220 (1966, since 1973 in black)
- Linhof 220 PL
- Linhof 220 RS
- Linhof Technar 45 (4x5") (1978)
Panoramic
Linhof produces the Technorama series of panoramic rollfilm cameras, in both 6x12cm and 6x17cm guise.
6x12
- Technorama 612PC
- Technorama 612PC II
- Technorama 612PC III (Prototype only, presented at 1996 Photokina)
6x17
- Technorama 617 (1976)
- Technorama 617s
- Technorama 617s III
Aerial photography
- Aero Press
- Electric 70
- Aerotronica 69 (6x9) (1983)
- Aero Technika
- Aero Technika (4x5")
- Aero Technika 45 (4x5")
- Aero Technika 45EL (4x5")
- Aero Technika 18x24
Photogrammetry, 4x5"
- Metrika 45
- Metrika 45R
Notes
- ↑ Technika with Technika-Flex TLR attachment offered for sale by Flints Auctions, Thatcham, UK.
Bibliography
- The Linhof camera story, edited by the company
