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Linhof is a German company, founded in
Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...
in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and
large format Large format photography refers to any imaging format of or larger. Large format is larger than "medium format", the or size of Hasselblad, Mamiya, Rollei, Kowa, and Pentax cameras (using 120 film, 120- and 220-roll film), and much la ...
film
camera A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photograp ...
s. Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developing the first leaf shutter, which became part of Compur. Nikolaus Karpf, who entered the company in 1934, designed the first Technika model, the world's first all-metal folding field camera, the same year. Revised models of the Technika are still in production. Today Linhof is the oldest still-producing camera manufacturer in the world after Gandolfi closed and Kodak sold their production to Calumet.


Products


Folding bed field cameras


6x9 cm

''See also
Linhof 6x9 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. Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developing the first leaf shu ...
.'' * Linhof Ur-Technika (1934) * Linhof Technika * Linhof Technika III, with or without RF * Linhof Technika IV * Linhof Super Technika IV * Linhof Technika 70 * Linhof Studienkamera 70 * Linhof Super Technika V = Super Technika 23 * Linhof Technikardan 23S * Linhof Techno


9x12 cm

* Linhof Technika II (1937–1943)


4x5 in.

* Linhof 34 (1934–1936) * Linhof Technika Medizin (1937–1943) * Linhof Standard Press * Linhof Technika III, with or without RF * Linhof Technika IV * Linhof Super Technika IV * Linhof Technika V * Linhof Super Technika V * Linhof Master Technika = Master Technika Classic * Linhof Master Technika 2000 * Linhof Master Technika 3000 * Linhof Technikardan 45 * Linhof TechniKardan 45S * Linhof TechniKardan 23 * Linhof TechniKardan 23S


13x18

* Linhof Standard * Linhof Technika * Linhof Technika III, with or without RF * Linhof Super Technika V


18x24

* Linhof Präzisionskamera 18x24 (Technika) (1937–1943) only 10 items made * Linhof Präzisionskamera 18x24 (Technika "Medizin" in grey) only 1 item made (pre-owner: famous German photographer Adolf Lazi and Franz Lazi)


Monorail view cameras

* Linhof Color 4x5 (inches) * Linhof Kardan 4x5 * Linhof Kardan Colour 4x5 * Linhof Technikardan s45 4x5 * Linhof Bi * Linhof Super Color * Linhof Super Color JBL * Linhof TL * Linhof GT * Linhof GTL * Linhof Kardan E * Linhof Kardan M * Linhof Kardan TE * Linhof Technikardan s23 2x3 (inches) * Linhof TechniKardan 45 * Linhof TechniKardan 45S * Linhof M679 6x9 * Linhof M679cc 6x9 * Linhof M679cs 6x9


Rigid body cameras

* Linhof Technika Press * Linhof Weitwinkelkamera 65 * Linhof Press 70 * Linhof 220 * Linhof 220 PL * Linhof 220 RS * Linhof Technar 45 (4x5)


Panoramic


6x12

* Technorama 612PC * Technorama 612PC II * Technorama 612PC III


6x17

* Technorama * Technorama 617S * Technorama 617S III


Aerial photography

* Aero Press * Electric 70 * Aerotronica 69 (6x9 * Aero Technika (4x5") * Aero Technika 45 (4x5") * Aero Technika 45EL (4x5") * Aero Technika 18x24


Photogrammetry, 4x5 in.

* Metrika 45 * Metrika 45R


Digital Platform

* Linhof Techno * Linhof M 679cs


Accessories

* tripods * ballheads * Linhof Levelling Pan/Tilt Heads * Linhof quicklock tripod connector Quickfix


See also

*
Graflex Graflex was a manufacturer that gave its brand name to several camera models. The company was founded as the Folmer and Schwing Manufacturing Company in New York City in 1887 by William F. Folmer and William E. Schwing as a metal working facto ...
similar cameras manufactured in the United States *
Press camera A press camera is a medium or large format view camera that was predominantly used by press photographers in the early to mid-20th century. It was largely replaced for press photography by 35mm film cameras in the 1960s, and subsequently, by ...


References


Bibliography

* ''The Linhof camera story'', edited by the company


External links

*
Linhof review at photo.net
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