The Pre-War Technikas are even harder to find out much info on.
Valentin Linhof was a talented inventor who came up with various shutters from 1887 and was making the Linhof all metal camera by 1910. Linhof made folding cameras from as small as 6x45 to 10x15.
In the 20-30's Perka and Silar were also making the same cameras as Linhof in Munich. Whether partners or used for outsourcing or due to mergers is unclear to me.
By 1930 Nikolaus Karpf was at work at Linhof inventing the articulating back and the Technika was born from this invention.
Proto-Technika / Ur-Technika 1934
was it two cameras or one with two names... and was it a prototype only?
Standard 1936-
without articulating back
Technika 1936-
The first Technika that I have seen marketing material for
Technika II ???
The Technika II is not mentioned in any literature of its period of wartime Germany but it is often referenced in later later Linhof materials
Perhaps the Ur-Technika is the "I" and the Technika is the "II" and there was not really an additional model prior to the III of 1946...
Anyway lots of holes in my Technika knowledge to fill in here. Any insights are appreciated.
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