LINHOF MONORAIL VIEW CAMERA and OPTICAL BENCH
8X10 Linhof Kardan Color camera and optional optical bench. Revolving 8X10 ground glass back on 8X10 rear standard, front lens standard, recessed adaptor lensboard to accept 5X7 Technika lensboards, 1 flat lensboard with 65.3mm hole, 1 meter 8X10 bellows, 600mm 8X10 bellows, 1 meter long about 2" diameter one piece steel rail, 2 rail clamps or tripod mounting blocks, wire hoop for 8X10 back to keep darkcloth out of your way. Both bellows are original, and in decent shape despite a few pinholes. 2 knobs on the front standard are heat damaged, but function unaffected. There probably wasn't a better built camera made than the Kardan color. The one piece rail and the 2 rail clamps will provide you with the greatest stability. Aside from the imperfections mentioned, camera is in Ex/Ex+ condition. Also with: 67" long metal optical bench with 5 mounts that allow the camera and other accessories to be slid along the length of the bench while maintaining linear alignment. Fluorescent transilluminated precision etched 240mm long vertically aligned linear ground glass scale with center target and rack and pinion vertical movement. The precision lens collimator and infinity test target has been sold and is no longer available. $2000 for the camera equipment. Optical bench accessories listed below. On my view camera page you will find more accessories for this camera View cameras
OPTICAL BENCH COMPONENTS: 67" long, 8.5" wide Durst enlarger wallmount girder with 5 custom sliding camera mounts. I use it in the horizontal position on a tabletop as an optical bench and for moving a camera to and from a wall mounted copyboard. Once the copyboard, girder and camera are aligned, you may easily slide the camera to and from copyboard whitout losing alignment. The German optical bench components listed above will mate well with this girder, although not specifically adapted to this girder. The 2 components listed immediately below are adapted to this girder and optimized for use with the Linhof Kardan camera listed above. Ex+, $300. See photo above with Linhof monorail view camera and optical bench.
OPTICAL BENCH COMPONENTS: 1.6X14.1" linear ground glass with centered metric rule (graduated 125mm to each side of center), with 2" geared left to right movement, with swing-away white opaque center focusing target, with extra adjustable mounting hardware, Mint-, $125. See photo above with Linhof monorail view camera and optical bench.
LENS COLLIMATOR by Gamma Scientific, model 7301-2T, includes 150mm F5.6 Rodagon coated enlarging lens, extremely high precision reticle, adjustable diaphragm, rear filter holder with orange filter, stainless steel construction, 120V lamp and adaptor to mount it on the rear of the collimator, Mint, $OLD. Wanted: a similar item to this. This serves as an infinity test target; focus on the transilluminated reticle inside this collimator and your lens is focused at infinity. It will also show up some lens abberations, if present in your lens. See photo above with Linhof monorail view camera and optical bench.
8X10/5X7/4X5 Linhof Kardan Color flat lensboard with universal diaphragm lensholder. This is illustrated on the Kardan Color Triplex camera, but it is not included with the camera. It is available as an optional accessory with the camera for $400 or separately for $600.
OPTICAL BENCH COMPONENTS: Extremely high quality French made lens or front surface mirror gimbal mount model SL8ABHC. Ball bearing swing and tilt movements with solid locks. The swing and tilt are spring shock mounted. Weighs 3# 10 ounces; very solidly built! The hole through the tilting lens/mirror holder is 3.15" or 80mm. The optical center is about 100mm above the base. Overall height about 6.125" or 156mm. Overall width about 6 11/16" or 170mm. Base is 80 X 115mm. $450. You may get the specifications directly from the manufacturer's web site: Newport Research Corporation. While you are there check out the new price of this!
OPTICAL BENCH COMPONENTS: Newport Research Corp. quick release Magnetic Base model 100, with 16.5" tall 1.5" diameter model 75 column with locking geared drive rail rider, good for mounting a front surface mirror or whatever to the rail rider for precise positioning of same, weighs 10#, substantial, high quality, Mint-, $100. Column may be removed from base and bolted to whatever with 4 1/4-20TPI socket head cap screws. Rail rider has 4 1/4-20TPI bolt holes for attaching whatever. Has many possible uses other than as an optical bench component.
OPTICAL BENCH COMPONENTS: Quality German made components. Tech/ops brand lens standard with micrometer shift and rise (with hardened and ground micrometer spindle threads), 3 other standards drilled and tapped to accept Graflok back, Mint-, $300. Graflok back not included. Each standard has 4 slotted holes in base for attaching to whatever. The lens standard probably had a universal diaphragm lensholder mounted on it as there are 4 holes for attaching one. I have put one on the lens standard with double sided tape and with lens just for illustration purposes. Universal diaphragm lensholders available separately on my VIEW CAMERA ACCESSORIES web page. 4X5 Graflok backs available separately on my VIEW CAMERA web page.
COMBINATION MICROSCOPE AND TELESCOPE or SPOTTING SCOPE. 35 power microscope. 15 power prism erecting telescope. The 1st photo shows it in use as a microscope, focused on the tabletop. The 2nd image shows it set up as a telescope. In case you prefer a traditional spotting scope tripod and ballhead as seen in the 3rd photo, see my Tripods web page. The hand is in the photo to give you a sense of scale. The spotting scope head weighs 1 pound. Small and compact. Stable, weighted base. Tight joints. Works amazingly well. This could easily be used as a very portable spotting scope. It is much smaller than and lighter weight than a typical spotting scope. It is only lighter weight because it is smaller; it is high quality with a brass housing. It has a 1/4-20TPI mounting hole and can be mounted on photographic tripods and monopods. Interchangeable telescope/microscope heads. With instructions. NEW-OLD-STOCK, $100
Bausch & Lomb microscope, with 3 objective lenses, (16mm 0.25) 10X, (4mm 0.65) 43X, and (1.9mm 1.25 oil immersion) 91X, one eyepiece, 10X, below stage built-in focusing condenser, mounted on base with built-in fan cooled quartz illumination system, large XY axis stage, coarse and fine focusing (each unit corresponds to a .002mm change), all optics newly cleaned and all gearing regreased, scratches on some of the lenses--although there is no apparent effect, $300 or $225 w/o the base illumination system. Lenscap for objective lens. Micrometer adjustable X,Y specimin table. In addition the the ordinary micrometer focusing system as found on any quality microscope, this B&L microscope has an extra fine focusing drive where each division = .002 millimeters; that is = .00008" and that is phenomenal.
Microscope illuminator, as illustrated above with microscope, $75. In its former life the base illumination system was a microfiche projector.
Olympus microscope stage, mechanical stage with opaque base, 120mm movemenet left to right, 60mm movement front to back, movement scales with verier accurate to 1/10 millmeter, dovetail mount on bottom, Mint-, $100
Other microscope accessories, including Nikon Multiphot, Leitz Aristophots and American Optical Orthophot found on COPY CAMERAS list. Enlarging lenses found on ENLARING LENSES list. Camera lenses found on VIEW CAMERA LENS list. Other items scattered throughout my various lists.
AZIMUTH BEARING CIRCLE RING by OPTIC ELECTRONIC CORP., made for U. S. Navy, solid brass, painted black with incised markings painted white, about 3/16" wall thickness,weighs 2# 3 ounces, 10.25" outside diameter, NEW-IN-BOX, $125.
POLARIZING GOGGLES + Science Project Kit. Land Color Theory Science Project Kit consisting of a pair of goggles with lever that allows you to vary the angle of the polarizing lenses by 180 degrees + 3 Wratten filters, 10 Roscolene plastic filters, 2 beam splitter mirrors, instruction manual, + some other informative paper work, NEW-OLD-STOCK from 1960, by Edmund Scientific Company in original tin. Glasses by American Optical, lenses by Polaroid; you cannot do better than that. Quite useful for ordinary day to day situations like fishing and other high glare situations; infinitely adjust the angle to just the right angle to avoid reflections and see the fish under the water, etc. The opaque wrap around ventilated frames add greatly to your visibility. PLUS--be the coolest looking dude in Nerdsville. $40
OPTHALMOLOGIST'S DEVICE. I do not find a manufacturer's name on it. It was probably made by Zeiss or Bausch & Lomb. One thing is for sure: it is very high quality mechanically. It is probably very high quality optically too, but I have no way of testing the optics. I bought it for the mechanics. The base by itself would make a great X,Y + rotation positioning stage for photography or whatever; cast iron construction with adjustable ways. There is also a vertical Z adjustable screw thread of equally robust design. And there are a couple of microscope quality adjustments in other parts of this device. There is a photo of a similar device made by Zeiss found on my Stereo photo equipment web page. $200 altogether or $100 without the X,Y base. The X,Y base has geared movements of 83mm movement in one direction, 36mm in the other. If you wanted to you could jack up your car with this device.
Bench magnifier. Heavy base with double jointed arm holds 90mm diameter magnifier at any angle allowing you to work hands free. $35.
Fujinon 7X35 Binoculars, 11 degree angle of view, fully coated optics, large central focus wheel for both lenses + helical focus for one lens, fold down rubber eyecups for eyeglass wearers, full set of lenscaps, case, strap. The single lenscap for the eyepieces is most convenient. I bought these new because I knew I could trust Fujinon, a great camera lens manufacturer, to make good binoculars, and they did not let me down. I have kept good care of them. They are virtually like new. $100
Bushnell Ensign 7X35 Binoculars, fully coated optics, 357' @ 1000 yds., rocker focus for both lenses + helical focus for one lens, rubber eyecups, 4 lenscaps, case, strap, Ex+, $20
Bino-Foto adaptor, $15. The camera mounts on the padded base. The binocular-to-tripod adaptor listed separately below mounts along the slotted rail and holds the binoculars. The whole system mounts onto a tripod. I bought this early in my photographic career before I could afford a super telephoto lens. It actually performed well, despite the complex setup.
Binocular-to-tripod adaptor, made in Japan. Clamps onto the round center post of your binoculars. Has 1/4-20TPI threaed hole in base. Mint, boxed. $15
22X24X1/4" front surface miror, in borderless rubber shielded metal mount, Mint-, $100
LIETZ LEVEL, with hard metal case with rubber seal, with tripod with special leveling head, with extendable calibrated pole with sliding marker, 24X scope, lenscap, lens shade, quality piece, the scope is near mint with mint glass, the tripod and the scope case show usage, still work fine, $350. Surveyor's rod (long telescoping calibrated pole in good condition) not illustrated, but is included.
DIETZGEN TRANSIT PARTS. Some parts are listed on my Tripods web page. I have many more parts. These parts are militray surplus. I have parts lists. I have an original 9 page shipping document dated 1945 from the US Government with an original signature made with a fountain pen. I have exploded diagrams. I have a blueprint. Some of the literature was mailed to me by Dietzgen in an envelop dated 1987. This literature package is available for $100.
BILBY STEEL TOWER FOR TRIANGULATION. Special publication No. 158. Booklet with double and triple centerfold of tower drawing. If you have one of these towers and want to service it, this may be very useful to you. I include a couple of illustrations I found interesting.
