I had a Technica that was made in 1954. I was born in 1959, and the camera worked fine into my forties. Two things, when using a short lens, you can shift the focus rail so it is continuous. The other things is you need to have focus cams to use the range finder, and each cam is matched to a specific lens, and has to ground precisely to work. If a lens doesn’t come with a cam, you are out of luck. Serial numbers on the cams will match the ones on the lens. Linhof will make a cam for any lens (within reason), and can regrind old cams to fit mismatched lenses.
I used one when I was doing studio product photography. Love the camera and wish I still had it when I retired. Unfortunately, it belonged to the company where I worked. Nice video and memories.
Hi David, excelente camera, I have one technika III mod. 4 from 1953 Unfortunaly It has no other tilt than to correct the base tilt. Nice videos. Cheers
You should consider sending it for a full CLA if you like it so much. You would be surprised by the number of things a certified Linhof technician would look at to bring your camera back to new setup.
Linhof have long since ceased service on the Technika III because several replacement parts are now out of stock. If anything is missing or broken, it has to be sourced from another 'spares' body, or machined from scratch. Such is the drawback of using antique equipment. Yes, beautifully made, but metal parts do deteriorate. Bearing surfaces wear down and anything under tension, (shear stress), suffers from metal-fatigue, resulting in loss of tensile strength, the main cause of fractures.
Kevin Parratt Austin at LAFlex has an inventory of old Linhof parts. Might be worth consulting him. He’s certified by Linhof and acquired South Africa Linhof center parts inventory a while ago I believe.
Kevin Parratt My Linhof is such a cherished camera for many reasons but my little movie on why I love using this camera was chiefly because of the quick set up time of 2 min or less. The timer was genuine and only used to illustrate how beautiful this camera is to use.
great camera, but one tip, you could have not fumbled with the front standard, by first setting the top bed to the wide-angle position, aka putting it towards the body, so the 'gap' was removed from the bed/base, this would align the tracks, so making it an easy slide from the storage pedistal, to the top track. so you could have shaved some of this time off the stopwatch. (this also saves wear on the guides under the standard too).
Behold, mr. David Chalmers is frying in the sunshine his large format lenses. And so are his camera bag and filmholders. David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy were the three London East End photographers who shot the Swinging Sixties with all kind of cameras. Duffy once said on non professional photographer with a Hasselblad: " That wanker looks like a gynaecolosist from Kensington". Mr. Chalmers makes me think of a gynaecolosist.
one other reason for the back detaching, is that it increases bellows draw, 560mm to 590mm long, so that a 360-450mm lens can be focussed ( this is the triple part of the "triple extension" feature on the advertisments); and allows these telephoto lenses to be used on these cameras, boosting the application of this camera platform. PS: what format is it, is this the 5x7"? as from my recal of the bed features (style of focus knobs, standard knobs {knob rise/fall, not the park_brake lever ratchet style}, suspension bridge handle on the standard, not the squeeze knobs) it looks like it.
one primary use of this drop-bed, is for wide-angle lenses, to allow the field of view, MILD wides, as to use ULTRA wides, one needs the in-body focus adaptor, or the in-body focus pinion on the 5x7 models, to get the lens close enough to the film.( hence the third notch on the bed {30deg.}).
Love to hear you but you just aren't recording loud enough, and I've noticed that on your other recordings. We shouldn't have to put on headphones, just lower the volume ! LarryMac
Most photographers are very bad technicians, so they mistreat their cameras. If you want to be a photographer you must be a good technician as well. Know your View Camera, Hasselblad, 24 x 36 and your electronic flashgenerator. I have seen shocking things at Calumet's. Jaco van Lith, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
A quick Linhof demo from my rooftop garden. I really love using this camera and cant wait to get out again soon, stay safe and be creative.
lovely space David. I have got one of these to play with for a bit......
Excellent enjoy and thanks for watching
I had a Technica that was made in 1954. I was born in 1959, and the camera worked fine into my forties. Two things, when using a short lens, you can shift the focus rail so it is continuous. The other things is you need to have focus cams to use the range finder, and each cam is matched to a specific lens, and has to ground precisely to work. If a lens doesn’t come with a cam, you are out of luck. Serial numbers on the cams will match the ones on the lens. Linhof will make a cam for any lens (within reason), and can regrind old cams to fit mismatched lenses.
I used one when I was doing studio product photography. Love the camera and wish I still had it when I retired. Unfortunately, it belonged to the company where I worked. Nice video and memories.
Hi David, excelente camera, I have one technika III mod. 4 from 1953 Unfortunaly It has no other tilt than to correct the base tilt. Nice videos. Cheers
Thank you for showing us this camera! I begin to understand why you love it so much.
robiuk666 Thank you for watching
Without an exposure meter and no focusing
making a photo through the darkslide?
It is magic !
You should consider sending it for a full CLA if you like it so much. You would be surprised by the number of things a certified Linhof technician would look at to bring your camera back to new setup.
Linhof have long since ceased service on the Technika III because several replacement parts are now out of stock. If anything is missing or broken, it has to be sourced from another 'spares' body, or machined from scratch. Such is the drawback of using antique equipment. Yes, beautifully made, but metal parts do deteriorate. Bearing surfaces wear down and anything under tension, (shear stress), suffers from metal-fatigue, resulting in loss of tensile strength, the main cause of fractures.
Kevin Parratt Austin at LAFlex has an inventory of old Linhof parts. Might be worth consulting him. He’s certified by Linhof and acquired South Africa Linhof center parts inventory a while ago I believe.
Nico Cazals awesome thank you
Kevin Parratt My Linhof is such a cherished camera for many reasons but my little movie on why I love using this camera was chiefly because of the quick set up time of 2 min or less. The timer was genuine and only used to illustrate how beautiful this camera is to use.
Nico Cazals Thanks Nico appreciate your comment and thanks for watching
great camera, but one tip, you could have not fumbled with the front standard, by first setting the top bed to the wide-angle position, aka putting it towards the body, so the 'gap' was removed from the bed/base, this would align the tracks, so making it an easy slide from the storage pedistal, to the top track. so you could have shaved some of this time off the stopwatch. (this also saves wear on the guides under the standard too).
Behold, mr. David Chalmers is frying
in the sunshine his large format lenses.
And so are his camera bag and filmholders.
David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy
were the three London East End photographers
who shot the Swinging Sixties with all kind of cameras.
Duffy once said on non professional photographer with a Hasselblad:
" That wanker looks like a gynaecolosist from Kensington".
Mr. Chalmers makes me think of a gynaecolosist.
one other reason for the back detaching, is that it increases bellows draw, 560mm to 590mm long, so that a 360-450mm lens can be focussed ( this is the triple part of the "triple extension" feature on the advertisments); and allows these telephoto lenses to be used on these cameras, boosting the application of this camera platform. PS: what format is it, is this the 5x7"? as from my recal of the bed features (style of focus knobs, standard knobs {knob rise/fall, not the park_brake lever ratchet style}, suspension bridge handle on the standard, not the squeeze knobs) it looks like it.
Thanks for this one. I have the exact same body. Will be doing a rebuild as it's in bad shape.
Bill Putnam thanks Bill good luck with the rebuild
hank you, Looking for one now. After the Doldrems of digital I need to move back!
one primary use of this drop-bed, is for wide-angle lenses, to allow the field of view, MILD wides, as to use ULTRA wides, one needs the in-body focus adaptor, or the in-body focus pinion on the 5x7 models, to get the lens close enough to the film.( hence the third notch on the bed {30deg.}).
Love to hear you but you just aren't recording loud enough, and I've noticed that on your other recordings. We shouldn't have to put on headphones, just lower the volume ! LarryMac
what?, you forgot to pull the dark-slide!!, so you had NO exposure, so the timer should have kept going!
This was just a demo- I wasn't making any pictures
thanks for watching
Most photographers are very bad technicians,
so they mistreat their cameras.
If you want to be a photographer you must be
a good technician as well.
Know your View Camera, Hasselblad, 24 x 36
and your electronic flashgenerator.
I have seen shocking things at Calumet's.
Jaco van Lith, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Thank you for this video!! , I;m very interested in the Linhof system. t