It's heavy and extremely well made, has silky smooth movements, and a quick release (I don't have the plate). I'm thinking Linhof, but it's unmarked.
It's heavy and extremely well made, has silky smooth movements, and a quick release (I don't have the plate). I'm thinking Linhof, but it's unmarked.
It certainly resembles the Linhof styling.
My guess is that this is an early tripod connector to match modern Kardan monorail cameras.
The dovetail mount is 130mm long x 70mm wide and the overall height of the head is 68mm. The diameter of the round base is 90mm. It weighs 36 oz. or about 1 Kilogram.
Looks like the bottom rail clamp of a Linhof Kardan (GT?).
Playing around with Google Image Search, I did manage to find pictures of a Linhof head with an almost identical base. In the second image I see that the Linhof label is a more easily removable sticker, which might explain why this head has no label.
I knew it looked familiar, it IS the railclamp of a Kardan Master TL (should have known all along, because I got one ... will double check later tonight).
You were right; it's a rail clamp from a Linhof Kardan Master TL. I found an image of the camera that clearly shows that it's the same part:
Thanks for the help!
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