Originally Posted by
Embdude
Here are my current notes on the Linhof and Linhof type cameras from 1900 to 1949. As always feel free to voice corrections as it is a work in progress. (camera maker is in the parentheses)
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E. Krauss (Linhof)
(Sold in France & Manufactured in Germany from 1909 to 1936.)
Actis camera: The 1922 Krauss catalog presents four models : in height, square , stereo in width and stereo square , available for the formats: 6.5 x 9; 8 x 10.5; 9 x 12; 10 x 15; 12 x 16.5 and 13 x 18. This gives a collection of 18 variations .
Korsitzky Brothers (Looks Linhof)
Vienna, Austria
6.5x9 folding camera with Tessar 4.5 / 12cm
PRÄCITA (Original)
Factory of photographic apparatus and lenses Ges.mbH,
(1923)
PRÄCITA 9x12cm Tall Hoch Balgenkamera mit W. KENNGOTT Triplet 135mm f/4,5. Original all metal triple extension camera, competitor to Linhof and Perka.
These companies were active following WWII:
MEOPTA Optical Factory (Linhof Technika Inspired Camera)
(1946-1949)
State enterprise in Czechoslovakia (division in Brno),
Manufacturer of optical instruments, enlargers and cameras
the company OPTIKOTECHNA Gesellschaft m.b. H in Prerau (Prerov, Czechoslovakia). The Optikotechna Optical Works was established in 1933 by eng. Alois Benes and Professor of physics Dr. Alois Mazurek in Prerov to manufacture darkroom equipment (enlargers and lenses), and (later) optical devices for military purposes. It was seized in 1939 by German occupying authorities and forced to work for the German army until the end of the WW II (1945). After liberation the company was nationalized and renamed to MEOPTA (1946).
(Technika copy) Meopta MAGNOLA 13x18 with Boyer Sapphire Lens
Meridian (Linhof Technika Inspired Camera)
(1947-1949 New York, USA)
American designed copy of the Linhof Technika
Meridian 45A & 45B models
M.P.P. Micro Precision Products Ltd (Linhof Technika Inspired Camera)
(England 1941to1982)
British optical company produced cameras and related equipment.
Micro Technical Camera, in 1948.[6] This camera, for 4×5 in. sheet film, was far in advance of any other camera produced in Britain.[7] Mark II followed in 1949; Mark III in 1951; Mark VI, Mark VII and Mark VIII in 1952, 1956, and 1963. (Mark IV and Mark V were not sold.)
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