Hello from Besançon!
I have scanned some pre-1984 Arca Swiss Oschwald catalogues here
A general catalogue in French and German, I would say mid sixties or seventies?
http://www.galerie-photo.com/manuels...s-oschwald.pdf
An A3-size folder describing the whole Arca Swiss Oschwald system with part numbers (in German).
http://www.galerie-photo.com/manuels...llemand-A3.pdf
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Is there any disadvantage to using the Linhof adapter?
Arca Swiss has (or: had) on their catalogue a 171 mm Arca Swiss board to Linhof Technika 96x99 mm.
F-line reference number for this item is 200005.
See the Arca Swiss F-line general catalogue, end 1990s, before F-line 141 mm boards & format frames were introduced. Adaptor boards are listed page 16/21 of the following pdf document.
http://www.arca-swiss-magasin.com/contents/fr/arca.pdf
To the best of my knowledge, post-1984 F-line 171mm boards fit pre-1984 Oschwald format frames.
So there is probably no problem using an adaptor to use Technika boards on a Arca Swiss camera, at least from the point of view of Arca Swiss ;-)
Not kidding: the only drawback would be for wide angle use, since when stacking something on an original board, eventually you loose some bellows ... draw.
This is a real (potential) problem with the Arca Swiss 6x9 cm Oschwald camera which is not as "compressible" as the current 6x9 F-line model.
But for 4x5" or larger format, the only limitation of the 96x99 mm Linhof Technika board is that it is limited in diameter of the hole to a #3 shutter.
If some day you need a #4 or a #5, the original 171 mm board will do the job.
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