Linhof technika iv tripod thread stripped
#Linhof technika iv tripod thread stripped install#
Over the years I have had to install three new rubber feet (they are retained with circlips) and had to glue the broken center column knob with epoxy after it disintegrated. Yes, the spirit level in that device is also useless. The massive and very well made Sirui K-40X ball head is a match made in heaven for the Linhof, and far superior to the funky Manfrotto head.
The nice Leitz head now happily makes its home on my Manfrotto monopod. My Linhof tripod came (for very few dollars) with a Linhof pan and tilt head, useless for still photography, so I replaced it first with a Leitz ball and socket head and, later, with the funky Novoflex Mini Magic. No, its not a $1,000 carbon fiber Gitzo, much as that would be nice to have. A world where we cannot commune with Chopin would be a sadder place.Īll my recent work with multiple images – HDR, panoramas and now Helicon Focus – suggested a piece might be in order about the tripod I use as these techniques dictate one is used. I have never understood why one would want to waste valuable real estate on all those tombs, Père Lachaise and Hampstead being the only exceptions where this sort of thing makes sense. I have owned mine some twenty years and it will likely go to the grave with me, though I suspect it will refuse to melt when my body is subjected to the fires of hell in the incinerator. But the only thing you would fit your Linhof on was a Linhof tripod. In addition to a broad range of Zeiss and Schneider lenses, you could fit any number of accessories to your Linhof and make it sing. This apogee of field camera design, in the many Technika models, came mostly in 4″ x 5″ size and was the love of industrial photographers across the world. However, if you wanted real quality in your pictures, we are talking billboard sized prints here, you used a Linhof. Made in West Germany – which quality once called home.īack in the fifties, the final flowering of the machine age, if you wanted quality in photo gear you used a Leica.