Aereo Press of Linhof (id. 9162), made in Munich , Germany in the 60s about. In addition, it was aerial camera favorite hand of the German Bundeswehr, ie military services unified from Germany.
the German company was founded in 1887 by master Valentin Lihof-mechanical (1854-1929), and began producing shutters circular leaves, which later settle in their own camera designs. Among his most characteristic it is that allow their teams to shoot the photo vertically and horizontally rotating the back of the camera . Among others, Linhof development shutter blade, which became part of Compur
This aerial camera performs exhibitions in portrait format 56x72mm, has interchangeable lenses Zeiss Planar (also German) 80mm . The camera is recorded in the Linhof brand. Technically, it is a relative of the press chamber rigid body Linhof Press 70 (in fact the manual is the same for the Linhof Press 70 and Aero Press). Uses rolls of film and has a large display that can take pictures with great precision. In fact, Linhof has been synonymous throughout its history of high quality photography
Royalty instruction manual of the Linhof Press 70 and Aereo Press
to this day, the company is. maker of cameras oldest in the world , after the American brand Kodak and British Gandolfi halt their production is more, thousands of photographers, artists, architects, scientists and engineers currently use cameras precision Linhof Some of the milestones of the company
in 1934, the hand of the designer Nikolaus Karpft, created the first model Technika, the first chamber Folding field metallic world, and still today in the XXI century still producing revised models. in fact, the Air Technika was regularly used in space by American or European missions.