Linhof Serial Numbers

[naondo]

I have a tan color Linhof 2X3(technika IV?) without rangefinder.
There is a number 49768 on the accesory shoe.
When was it made?

[Bob Salomon]

I have a tan color Linhof 2X3(technika IV?) without rangefinder.
There is a number 49768 on the accesory shoe.
When was it made?

Technika III 1955. The last one of the series was 49799 so yours is close to the end of the production

[naondo]

Thank you for your answer very quickly.

[naondo]

Technika III 1955. The last one of the series was 49799 so yours is close to the end of the production

Thanks Bob!
I understand that technika III usually is in Black Leather and has four buttons to release the back.
But my technika 23 is in Tan Leather and has one lever to release the back.
Hmmm...It's mystery.
And how many technika 23s without rangefinder are made?
Sorry for many questions.

[Bob Salomon]

Thanks Bob!
I understand that technika III usually is in Black Leather and has four buttons to release the back.
But my technika 23 is in Tan Leather and has one lever to release the back.
Hmmm...It's mystery.
And how many technika 23s without rangefinder are made?
Sorry for many questions.

Sorry but those cameras are so old that we have no specific information on the series. There was a camera called a Study Camera 69 that was similar to the Super Technika III and IV but had no rangefinder or viewfinder. I do have a picture of it so if you can post a picture of your camera we can tell if it is the same.

But the serial number that you posted is from a III.

[Peter K]

I understand that technika III usually is in Black Leather and has four buttons to release the back.
But my technika 23 is in Tan Leather and has one lever to release the back.
Hmmm...It's mystery.
And how many technika 23s without rangefinder are made?
Sorry for many questions.

The Technika III 4x5" was normaly in black leather, but on special order every other color was possible.
The Technika III 5x7" was made in black and red leather. Also the bellows was red.
The Technika III and IV 2x3" was made in black, tan with black bellows, green with green bellows and red with red bellows.
Every Technika was also aviable without rangefinder.

The Technika 2x3" with the lever to release the back is a Technika IV

[naondo]

Thank you Bob and Peter.
Great informations for me.
I take some pictures of my technika 23.
It seems to gray color rather than tan.
Are they useful for judgement?

[Peter K]

It's a Technika IV without rangefinder. The only difference between a III and IV is the lever. The III has four sliders to remove the back.

[Bob Salomon]

Thank you Bob and Peter.
Great informations for me.
I take some pictures of my technika 23.
It seems to gray color rather than tan.
Are they useful for judgement?

It looks very much like the Technika Study camera on pg 96 of the second edition of The Linhof Camera Story.

It does not look very much like the Study Camera 70 on page 74 of the same book. But there is still that serial number that is from a III.

Too bad you wouldn't have a matched cam to see if it has the same serial number as your camera. The back system is from the IV.

[Peter K]

Bob, the study camera has the same body as the Technika 70. Also the red lines left and right from the lens shows the camera is a Technika IV. A Technika without a rangefinder has no cams. Also the cams of the Technika III and IV where only marked with the serial number of the lenses but not the camera number.

At page 29 in the first Linhof-book "Linhof-Praxis" from 1958, as I know also aviable in english in this time, one can find this camera, labeled as "Technika 6,5x9 without rangefinder".