Linhof

Linhof (Linhof Präzisions-Systemtechnik GmbH)
TypeGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
IndustryPhotography, Digital Imaging, Still cameras, lenses
Founded1887
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Key peopleValentin Linhof
Websitehttp://linhof.com/

Linhof is a German company, founded in Munich in 1887 by Valentin Linhof. The company makes premium rollfilm and large format film cameras. Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developed the first leaf shutter, which became part of Compur.

Nikolaus Karpf entered the company in 1934 and that year designed the Technika, the world's first all-metal folding field camera. Revised models of the Technika are still in production.

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 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 13x18 camera (between 1936-1939)
  • 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

Rigid body cameras

Linhof Technika Press 6x9cm Camera
Linhof Technika Press 6x9cm Camera

Panoramic

6x12

6x17

Aerial photography

Photogrammetry, 4x5 in.

Digital Platform

Accessories

See also

References

Bibliography

This article was originally based on "Linhof" in Camerapedia, retrieved on 4 August 2007 under the GNU Free Documentation License.