Which 5x7 use Technika Lensboards

[Ron Bose]

I've standardized on Technika lensboards and was pondering about getting a 5x7 camera sometime this year.

Gandolfi's use Technikas as do Chamonix, but Canham uses Canham.

Apart from rare 5x7 Technikas and Linhof Monorails, which other manufacturers use Technikas on their 5x7s ?

[Nick_3536]

Not natively but the Shen Hao comes with a Sinar to Linhof 96mmx98mm adapter board. So you can fit your Linhof boards to the camera. Or for bigger lenses use a Sinar board.

[JJ Viau]

Hello Ron,

My wooden Canham used to use Technika boards directly. This is something you can specify when ordering.
The Technika boards are pretty much the smallest you can find and everybody offers adapters for them, so I don´t think it should make a big impact on the camera choice for you.
Further, I am quite sure the 5x7" Technika used larger and rare boards!

JJ

[Ted Harris]

Gandolfi's use Technikas as do Chamonix, but Canham uses Canham.



Not completely accurate. Keith Canham offers a $150 modification to the 45/57 Traditional camera where he swaps out the Canham/Toyo frame in the front standard for a Technika frame. That is the setup I have on my Canham. Peter Gowland used to offer something similar on his 5x7 Pocket View. The 5x7 Tachihara and Shen Hao offerings may also use a Technika size frame but I don't recall for sure.

Beyond that. adapter boards are easy to come by. You mount the adaptor board and leave it in place then mounting all your lenses, which are already on Technika boards, to the adaptor. I have such a adaptor board on my rail camera and it basically just stays there. There is a small disadvantage to adaptor boards on field cameras .... if you use very wide lenses with recessed boards they sometimes get even more difficult to use.

[Nick_3536]

Nice thing about adapters is they come off. Take the adapter off and use a bigger recessed board. For some reason I bought a recessed sinar type board for my 8x10 Shen. No sane reason once I had the camera and saw how wide the camera can go with a flat board. But the bigger Sinar type board would be easier to use then a recessed Linhoff board.

OTOH I'm not sure the same trick would work on the 5x7 Shen. The opening is smaller making a recessed Sinar board a problem.

[Chuck Pere]

The light weight Anba Ikea 5x7 uses technika boards.

[Sal Santamaura]

Not natively but the Shen Hao comes with a Sinar to Linhof 96mmx98mm adapter board. So you can fit your Linhof boards to the camera. Or for bigger lenses use a Sinar board.As do the Ebony 5x7s. Nice thing about Ebony's included adapter is that it doesn't displace a Technika-mounted lens forward at all. Great if you want your center tilts to remain in the shutter's center.

[Ron Bose]

I use adapter boards on my Phillips Compact-II, I thought that the front standard for a Canham 4x5 or 5x7 would be too small for an adapter.

But knowing that Keith offers a modified front standard is very helpful.

I have a 5x7 reduction back for my Phillips, it's based on the Canham, so I'll shoot with that for a year and start saving for a 5x7 traditional ...

[Morten]

Not natively but the Shen Hao comes with a Sinar to Linhof 96mmx98mm adapter board. So you can fit your Linhof boards to the camera. Or for bigger lenses use a Sinar board.

My Shen-Hao FCL57-A takes Technika Lensboards by default and natively :-)

Best regards
Morten

[Oren Grad]

I use adapter boards on my Phillips Compact-II, I thought that the front standard for a Canham 4x5 or 5x7 would be too small for an adapter.

But knowing that Keith offers a modified front standard is very helpful.

In addition to the Technika-type front standard from the factory, Keith offers what he calls an "adapter frame" which allows Technika boards to be used on Canham cameras that have the regular Canham/Toyo style front standard. I have one of these - it's not an adapter board that can be left in place, rather a sort of spacer-widget that sits behind your Technika board and positions it just right so that the locking sliders on the camera's front standard will hold everything securely in place. If you think you might use lenses with a very large rear cell, it may make sense to get the regular Canham front standard which uses the larger Canham/Toyo boards, then use Canham boards for the big stuff and Technika boards with the adapter frame for your smaller lenses.

Also, FWIW, late-model Nagaoka 5x7's take Technika boards.

[Ole Tjugen]

Apart from rare 5x7 Technikas and Linhof Monorails, which other manufacturers use Technikas on their 5x7s ?

5x7" Technikas use larger boards - Like the boards for Tech III's, but much larger.

Linhof monorails? The Kardan series uses different, larger boards.

[Nick_3536]

My Shen-Hao FCL57-A takes Technika Lensboards by default and natively :-)

Best regards
Morten

Why did they do that? Leaving off the adapter couldn't have
saved them that much money.

[Morten]

Why did they do that? Leaving off the adapter couldn't have
saved them that much money.

Unsure about why they dit it, but I assume & guess that the Shen-Hao FCL57-A is a new light and compact design compared to the HZX57-IIAT. And that they in addition to save cost also wanted to save weight & simplify.
Many detailed Pictures of the camera here (http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=19657)

The shen-Hao 5x7 lineup is here (http://www.shen-hao.com/E57512.html)

Best regards
Morten

[Dave Aharonian]

My Canham MQC 5x7 takes Linhof boards with a small adapter that fits into the front standard. It think it costs about $150 (mine came with the camera). At first I thought it was a bit cheap in terms of quality because it doesn't actually clamp in place, rather, its a pressure fit, but in use its been perfect and I never even think about it now.

[Peter K]

The dimensions for the different Linhof camera lensboards are:

74x81 mm : Technika 6x9cm/2 1/4 x 3 1/4"

93 x 100 mm : Technika III 9x12cm/4x5"

96x99 mm : Linhof Technika IV up to Master 9x12/4x5" und Linhof Color & Kardan Color 9x12/4x5" (plus Toyo, Wista, Tachihara, Shen-Hao, ...)

129x129 mm : Linhof Technika 13x18cm/5x7"

220 x220 mm : Linhof Kardan 13x18cm/5x7" + 18x24cm/8x10"

200 x 200 mm : Linhof Kardan Color 13x18/5x7" + 18x24/8x10"

162x162 mm : Linhof Kardan from ca. 1967 (Kardan Bi and follows)

Peter K

[Dave Wooten]

I like the Toyo boards,Toyo makes an adapter for their 110mm field board. This will fit directly to the Canham with the 6" Toyo board. The small 110 mm Toyo board give me a bit more meat behind by lens and is easier for me to handle than the Tech boards, also the 6 " Canham/Toyo set up handles 760 mm Nikor and larger lenses nicely.

[Carsten Wolff]

My Arca B 5x7 thankfully came with a 171x171mm to Linhof adapter and as such is a perfect set-up for me. Older Arcas scream Linhof or such anyway due to their otherwise huge native boards.

[Carlos R Herrera]

Don't forget the LOTUS 5x7.

http://www.lotusviewcamera.at/cameras/lovica_5x7_e.html

[Michael Jones]

I use adapter boards on my Phillips Compact-II,
I have a 5x7 reduction back for my Phillips, it's based on the Canham, so I'll shoot with that for a year and start saving for a 5x7 traditional ...

Ron:

A year? I think you could sell your Phillips gear in about an hour and then buy any 5x7 Canham tomorrow with a bucket of film to boot! :)

Mike

[BradS]

Not completely accurate. Keith Canham offers a $150 modification to the 45/57 Traditional camera where he swaps out the Canham/Toyo frame in the front standard for a Technika frame.

I think Keith charges significantly more for this modification now...at least his web site kinda implies that.

[Ron Bose]

Ron:

A year? I think you could sell your Phillips gear in about an hour and then buy any 5x7 Canham tomorrow with a bucket of film to boot! :)

Mike


Of course I'd keep the Phillips for 8x10, duh :p

The wife keeps telling me it won't happen, but I want to be buried with my Compact-II ... I'll be using it in the after-life :D

[Ron Bose]

Don't forget the LOTUS 5x7.

http://www.lotusviewcamera.at/cameras/lovica_5x7_e.html

It's not exactly cheap !!! :eek:

[Carlos R Herrera]

It's not exactly cheap !!! :eek:


True...I bought my 4x5 Lotus through Quality Camera (shady) when they first came out. Paid a little over $2000 then. Prices went up a lot since plus the ownership change, but my camera is extremely well built, better in quality then my other cameras. I think they are built to order now.

CH