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I love the creative spirit - what a beautiful assembly

It is very similar in design and construction to my Wista M450

Thanks.

Have you ever seen that model up close ?

Where's the Swing Movement for each standard ?

I look into this picture, and besides that marvelous Ball Gimbal, I cannot see any Swing mechanism built into the bottom of the standards.

Does it...

I've seen this weird contraption before, on picture and also as parts for sale about 5 years ago on Ebay. The monorail, The back-standard without the plate-carriage, and the front-standard. No...

I saw a Gigant on sale on Ebay Germany for 175 Euro about two weeks ago. Not all Ebay Germany's listings will appear on Ebay global, because those listings which will not ship (only collected...

A 60 years-old Linhof brochure, showing off their new upcoming 'Mark-3' Kardan Color 8x10'' Triplex Configuration (the whole system is highly modular allowing the mix of parts from differetnt models)...

Tha't an absolute beauty. The main tripod column seem floating on top of the dolly. I now understand your earlier comment on the dolly.

It looks like your 8x10 is the earlier MK2 machine (1957-1959 ?) equipped with geared lift (for Rise and Fall movements).

Later MK3 machines did not - I have no idea why Linhof omitted such...

What a beast ! - It looks so graceful from that angle.

I'm in Haifa, Israel.

Thanks Moe. The long monorail is essential for using my (other) 42" bellows with long lenses such as the Fujinon EBC T 400mm/f8 or the T 600mm/f12.

The bellows shown above is the standard 24"...

Collecting Kardan Color parts on Ebay, each part at a time for the last five years or so, I managed to assemble a simple configuration of a duplex 8x10.

The tripod and the tilt-swing head, were...

My old M450 all dressed up with it's newly acquired wide-angle kit :

an adaptable recessed lens-plate, and a bag-bellows :

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Martin, "oak-in-fog" (link) is not accessible when I try to open it - was it tagged "private" ?

Do you develop the film and then scan, or directly print on paper via an enlarger ?

Kodakchrome (or similar) transparency - any transparency cut-film, such as http://www.ebay.com/itm/263086933501

For your third trial : If you are after hyper-resolution sharp pictures, I would advise having good, sharp lenses first, such as Voigtlander "Heliar", Rodenstock "Ronar", or Schneider "Symmar".
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Wista M450 Mark-1 produced in 1978, and to the bottom right, a skeleton of a Linhof Kardan Color 5x7 Mark-2 produced in 1959

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Wista M200 is a third-generation descendant to the earlier M450 View model which by itself had an earlier and later more advanced design.

This is the earlier version of M450, with locking knobs...