The company is well known for making premium rollfilm and large format film cameras.

Linhof initially focused on making camera shutters and developing the first leaf shutter, which became part of Compur.

Nikolaus Karpf, who entered the company in 1934, designed the first Technika model, the world's first all-metal folding field camera, the same year.

Today Linhof is the oldest still-producing camera manufacturer in the world after Gandolfi closed and Kodak sold their production to Calumet.

This article was originally based on "Linhof" in Camerapedia, retrieved on 4 August 2007 under the GNU Free Documentation License.