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The whole set weights 4 Kg (~9 pounds) and that helps very much in avoiding camera shake when the shutter fires. Multi focal viewer with paralaxe correction and masks for different film formats. Lens shade with adapters for different lens diameters and a slot for filters that slip in. Ready for handheld street photography? Here the Technika is equipped with some add-ons. It is worthwhile visiting Linhof’s website and I recommend you to start from the History pages. Today it can take films, as ever, but and also digital backs, new and old lenses and the ones to come will fit in a Technika, and that is what Techkina is all about, making as diverse as possible the combination of a sensitive photographic surface with many, many lenses. It is probably not senseless to say that the flexibility of its project, first prototype in 1939, is the main reason for that longevity. What is also amazing is that the Technika is still in production today (at the time of this post, May/2016). Of course, there are limits for those movements, but lenses have also their range of usability, so we can say that the Technika V, in an incredible array or circumstances, is able to exploit the limits of a great many lenses. Beyond be obviousness of varying the distance in order to get focus, it allows the lens axe to be freely positioned in relation to image plane in translations and angulations. Considering photography as an affair between a light sensitive surface and a lens, that must be held in complete darkness, this camera is a superb darkness provider.