In fact it does! however the deeper into this rabbit hole I go the more I'm seeing that the gibellini in its current form cant handle these lenses without serious modification. The front Standard does have a locking mechanism to prevent the lens board from tilting, however with a 250mm tophat/extended lensboard theres no practical way to support it or the torque that will inevitably happen. So it appears I either need a new camera or somehow Gibellini can add a second extension rail/custom bellows.
Some people use a Manfrotto support arm that runs from the front tripod leg to the end of the camera base or rail. Having occasionally used a Nikkor-T 500/11 on my 4x5, something like that sounds like a good idea.
Reinhart Wolf famously used multiple tripods and many Sinar parts to assemble his telephoto camera, not an option in your case, alas
An alternative option if you aren't planning on shooting extra long lenses regularly is to shoot ~400mm or 600mm lenses with a 4x5 reduction back and live with smaller negatives. Which may be sharper in practice for a variety of reasons, not least of which is having significantly less bellows draw. I know it's not nearly as cool as shooting a 1200mm lens though .
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