Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Paul Schliesser wrote: > >I'm surprised I haven't heard more from this group about the Tiltall (which > >used to be the Leitz Tiltall. I have three of them and use them for 35mm, > >6x6cm, and even for a lightweight 4x5 field camera. I have never used > >anything else that I liked better, including my overweight Gitzo. > > > Jim, > > I have a Tiltall made by Uniphot, in New York. I've seen them in old > Leica brochures, but I always figured that they just distributed them or > something. What is their history? I have not seen one in a camera store > for at least 10 years. > > - Paul > For many years in the late 50s and 60s (I believe) the Tiltall was made by a small company (Tiltall) in a garage in New Jersey. It was very popluar because it worked and you got the head with the tripod at no extra cost. Only problem with the tiltalls, as I remember, is that they were shiny chrome and relfections happened on the subject when you didn't want them. Uniphot knocked them off. The Uniphot unit is an inferior copy. Leitz , U.S.A. bought the garage factory and sold them at much higher prices. They also made black ones, I believe. Anyone else fill me in on what I left out ? Ed Meyers