Valentin Linhof

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Valentin Linhof (* 1854 ; † 1929 ) was a German camera designer, inventor and company founder.

Linhof founded a photo studio in Munich in 1887 and developed the first built-in camera shutter there , for which he won the gold medal in Paris that same year. In 1889 he presented the first photo camera in an all-metal housing with a tilting standard, a model that was designed by the Munich precision engineer Joseph Barth and formed the basis for further developments in the Valentin Linhof precision camera factory . In 1892 he patented the first shutter built into the lens. After Linhof's death, Nikolaus Karpf took over the world's oldest precision camera factory after Gandolfi , now known as Linhof Präzisions-Systemtechnik GmbH known.

In 1981 a street in Munich was named after Linhof. The street was previously called Forstenrieder Strasse , then Hindenburgstrasse .

literature

  • Hildrun Kerkmann: The Linhof camera book - 70 cameras from 1990 - 1934 . Munich: Verl. Photo Technik Int., 1990 ISBN 3-87119-135-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Victoria Bodishevskaya: History of Photography - Technical Basics for the Development of Photography (1900-1918)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 189 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / campar.in.tum.de
  2. ^ Hans Dollinger: The Munich street names 3rd edition. Ludwig Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-517-01986-0
personal data
SURNAME Linhof, Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pioneer of photo technology
DATE OF BIRTH 1854
DATE OF DEATH 1929