Linhof 220 camera

I just brought a Linhof 220 camera (black version) but I am just

having a problem on loading the film. The litter sticker inside the

film chamber indicated that I should tension the shutter until the

green indicator appears next to the film counter. After that put the

loaded film inside and close the cover. Here comes the problem! After

I closed the cover I couldn't wind the level to the first film unless

I trigger the shutter. Is that how the camera works?

I would be grateful if anyone can tell me how to use the camera.

That is exactly how it works. Watch out because that is how it works out at the other end as well. If you dont watch the frame counter you will shoot a "half frame" at the end before you notice the tension change.

 

Congratulations on your purchase. This is one of the finest lenses ever made. Its resolution is on par with the Mamiya 7 lenses and its smoothness and bokeh is far superior. Its only disadvantage is the lack of automatic parallax adjustment. The meter is a bit "micky mouse" and what I have done is put a black voigtlander VC meter in the hot shoe; it works and looks great.

I`m not familiar with a Linhof 220, what is it? Thanks, Steve

The best viewfinder I ever looked through. Gigantic!!!! A small small camera for the film size.

The Linhof 220 camera is a vertical format 6x7cm that has a

anatomical pistol grip mounted on the bottom of the camera.

The grip cannot be removed, it has a built in trigger release that is

a joy to use. The nonremoveable lens that came with the camera is a 95mm f3.5 Linhof Technikar (made by Rodenstock). The camera is set up to take 120/220 film with the use of inserts for quick loading, you use

the same insert for both 120/220. I think, but I am not sure that this

was the first camera to be able to take 220 film, hence the name.

 

Linhof only made appx 2200 of these cameras over a 10 year span, and there were 4 different models. 1st was tan, then the black, at the end

of the run they moved the handgrip from under the camera to the rt. side plus they also made a AERO model that had no rangefinder.

 

The camera has a quick advance lever on the left side, built in light

meter with read out at the bottom of the rangefinder. Most of the light

meters don't work, however the one in my camera works and is good enough to be used with slide film outside...

 

The camera is a pain to carry around, but a joy when you put it to your

eye to take pictures with. wbill

Bill, thanks for giving my memory a boost. I now recall seeing one at a show several years ago. Steve

" The camera is a pain to carry around, but a joy when you put it to your eye to take pictures with. wbill "

 

I had one of these great camera's and it was a pleasure to carry around with a wrist strap attached to the base of the pistol grip. I carried it this way on many a hike and would often forget it was there, until it banged into something. BTW I traded it for a Super Angulon 65mm F:8 for my Technika V 6X9, and often regret the fact. The 95mm F:3.5 lens is a sharp performer - I salvaged one from my "parts" Linhof 220 and put it in a Copal 0 shutter for use on the Technika.

Hi All

I have just purchased a Linhof 220 with a dismantled advance mechanism. I have all the parts, but does anyone have a workshop manaul to assist me in putting it together?

It looks simple enough but there seems to be a sequence or start position to sync the lever with the rest of the camera.

my answer is more to Callender with his dismantled 220: I repair mine and I can give

information on the way to fix it. e-mail jean-marie.thomas13@wanadoo.fr.

 

by the way anyone could send me photographs of the telemeter of the 220: mine is

missing the moving part.

We just found out there is a German "Mr. Umbach", at least,

someone who can repair Linhof 220 and has parts for it. Only

this man is not German (they all sailed across the great great

sea to become famous repair men over there), but he comes

from former Yugoslavia (that's where the Germans imported

people from when all good camera repair men had left). His

name is Mr. Zgonjanin, and this is his website:

 

http://www.service-bronica.de

 

(obviously, he does Bronica as well)

 

I know he speaks German, as we have spoken on the phone,

but I know not if he speak English or French. His daughter might

be able to help out there.

 

He was highly recommended to us by the Belgian representative

for Linhof. Mr. Zgonjanin is the last Linhof 220 trained repairman

working at the Linhof head office in Munich. I called Linhof and of

course they could not help with spare parts, but gave me the

phone number of Mr. Zgonjanin without any hesitation.

 

Mr. Zgonjanin told me he has access to all spare parts that are

left of the Linhof 220 since he still works for Linhof. He has

offered to send us an exploded view of the camera, if necessary.

When we spoke on the phone about a rather complicated

technical issue that we wanted to solve/repair, we had the

impression this man knows his cameras inside out. He was at

the time repairing five more Linhof 220's, so other people might

have found out about him as well.

 

I wanted to share this with the photo.net community, as it is very

difficult for us stranded in Europe (even more so than in the

States), to find people who still want and who still can repair our

medform gear.