Son of a gun! A Linhof TLR

[Dan Fromm]

4x5, no less.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/LINHOF-POLICE-APPAREIL-PHOTOGRAPHIQUE-D-IDENTITE-JUDICIARE-/150941067084

[Sevo]

These have been made by just about every German or perhaps even European maker - they obviously were part of some specifications for standardised mug shots. The bulk of them were by Plaubel and Cambo - a preceding or competing system used a sliding back.

[Bob Salomon]

That wasn't the Linhof TLR. The TLR (production version) was the Technoflex. And it was hand holdable!
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[Frank Petronio]

Now that's one I'd rob a bank for!

[Oren Grad]

And it was hand holdable!

Like Peter Gowland's 8x10! :)

http://www.petergowland.com/camera/CameraPageImages/8x10flex.jpg

[Dan Fromm]

Thanks for the explanations. The US-made mug shot cameras I've bought (all Sirchies) for their shutters have all been much cruder. Focus on the ground glass (some have had proper Graflok focusing panels) or point and hope. The mugs may have been, um, restrained.

[Robbie Bedell]

Bob, That is a Frankencamera if there ever was one!

http://robbiebedell.photoshelter.com

[sully75]

Like Peter Gowland's 8x10! :)

http://www.petergowland.com/camera/CameraPageImages/8x10flex.jpg

Is that a woman's head on a man's body? Strange picture.

[rdenney]

That wasn't the Linhof TLR. The TLR (production version) was the Technoflex. And it was hand holdable!
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I think I would suggest a weight training program.

Rick "who has actually made photographs with a Gowlandflex, under the supervision of Peter Gowland, but they still sucked" Denney

[mortensen]

I think I would suggest a weight training program.

Rick "who has actually made photographs with a Gowlandflex, under the supervision of Peter Gowland, but they still sucked" Denney

hahaha... LOL :)

[rdenney]

Is that a woman's head on a man's body? Strange picture.

Notice the choker. More jewelry was required in the days before Photoshop.

Rick "suspecting the owner of those muscles was not smiling" Denney

[Oren Grad]

Here's how Gowlandflexes were intended to be used - scroll down to the second row of pictures, look at the one on the right:

http://www.petergowland.com/Calendar1.html

Bob, what is the canonical use scenario for a Linhof TLR? :)

[Bob Salomon]

That wasn't the Linhof TLR. The TLR (production version) was the Technoflex. And it was hand holdable!
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A correction, the correct name was TECHNIKA-FLEX

Some additional details;
It mounted to any Super Technika V 4x5 camera. It used either 150 or 270mm lenses. It was parralax corrected and the finder lens had an aperture control to preview DOF. It came on and off in seconds and was equipped with what was then called an Ektalite screen under the ground glass. Today we call that a Fresnel screen. It was supplied with 56x72mm and 45 in/912 cm viewing masks.

[Frank Petronio]

Here's how Gowlandflexes were intended to be used - scroll down to the second row of pictures, look at the one on the right:

http://www.petergowland.com/Calendar1.html



I like that they eat lunch before they shoot. That would never happen now, the models starve themselves like High School Wrestlers before they shoot.

[SpeedGraphicMan]

Reminds me of the GowlandFlexes of yesteryear!