Show off your Large Format camera!

[Tin Can]

RIP

Many died for Vietnam

My cousin too

[ic-racer]

Hmm...I thought it was to keep the front of the bed out of the photo.

The rear is tilted all the way back to its stop. This keeps the front rails out of the image.
The base tilt on the lens is tilted more than the back. This allows the lens to come all the way to the ground glass. It can actually touch, so the minimal focal length is zero.
The front axial tilt is adjusted so the lensboard is parallel to the ground glass. Opening the upper clips on the GG back and swinging it out a tad allows one to see, from the inside, both front and rear openings and it is easy to align them parallel.
This is all possible due to the presence of both front axis and base tilts not found on the other Phillips-style cameras.

What is not easy is centering the lens. The view from the corners is too dim. The lens has to be centered with a ruler.

[MauroScacco]

LInhof technika Press Red 6x9 with 53mm biogon and 100 planar

1959 - extraordinary camera, only a few examples were made and it disappeared into thin air, replaced in 1963 by the ugly Technika 70
Extraordinary for the speed of focusing with the center ring, for the ability to change lenses instantly without having to reset the telemetry system by moving the cams, very bright viewfinder and fast shooting

In short, a combat PRESS :-)

DSC05355 by Mauro Scacco, su Flickr

[MartyNL]

Sweet looking camera!

[Beevo]

I had a Technika 70, my first foray into Medium/Large format. As you say a truly ugly camera...

Yours is a pretty looking, very business like camera.

Bill