Please Help Me Identify This Extension Rail!

[Peter Gomena]

This extension rail has defied my ability to name it. It is 160mm long end-to-end, including the protruding parts on the ends. It is 30mm in diameter. I would love to know the manufacturer and model of camera this would fit.

Peter Gomena

[Jim Noel]

similar to Sinar, but can't tell for sure.

[rdeloe]

That is the basic rail that came with a Toyo D45M. It's missing the end caps, whose only job is to prevent the camera from sliding off. There are two sizes of extension rails (that I know of) that you can connect to this -- a short one and a long one.



Your rail is the piece on the right that ends in the flat cap. You can see the short rail (with the conical end cap that you twist to turn the threaded screw that fits into the end).

[Peter Gomena]

Thanks you! Mystery solved. Not a very long base rail.

The rail I photographed came into our shop without a camera attached, and it is not marked.

[B.S.Kumar]

There are a couple of variations of these rails:

The original Toyo View Deluxe camera used these rails, with two key slots and flat metal caps:



The later Toyo D45 and D45M used these rails with one key slot and tapered bakelite knobs:





All the rails have the same 29mm diameter and will fit any Toyo Deluxe, D45 or D45M camera, but you cannot combine them, since the key slots are different.

Kumar

[Peter Gomena]

Thanks, Kumar! Great illustrations. I appreciate this!

Peter

[rdeloe]

There are a couple of variations of these rails:All the rails have the same 39mm diameter and will fit any Toyo Deluxe, D45 or D45M camera, but you cannot combine them, since the key slots are different.
Kumar

Little typo there... Diameter of the rails is 29mm.


I do wish there was a rail in between the long and short extension rails. For my setup the long extension rail Kumar shows is usually far too long; the short one is perfect for 125mm lenses, and lets me focus down to around 1.4 metres with my 210mm lens. This is a minor problem though. All in all it's a nice camera if you need something on rails.

[B.S.Kumar]

Thanks for pointing out the typo. Toyo made 6" (150mm) rails for the D and G series cameras. It is also possible to stick a cap on half the two-part D rail for a shorter extension.

Kumar