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If camera was purchased with one lens, cam had only one serial number engraved. As lens was purchased service would machine cam to match it and engrave SN of that lens on. I have seen these cams with one SN, I have one that has two and one with three, but on the one with three you can tell one SN was done at a different time.
 

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Inflation is ~11x from 1957 to 2025, so in today's dollars it was ~ $200 to get a camera calibrated for a new lens; the Xenar one-lens outfit was about $5000 equivalent, up to ~$6700 for a Schneider 3-lens outfit and a staggering ~$15,000 equivalent for the Zeiss 3-lens outfit.

Are. you sure of the 11x number? I would have thought it was more.
 

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I have to reply to myself because something very unexpected happened. I discovered the supposed existance of the GS-1 back adapter mentioned above. I did quite a bit of searching back then and concluded that it was a unicorn, and very few (if any) were actually made.

To get the KEH link in the above post, I had to search using a general search engine (i.e. Google, but I use a different search.) When I looked at all the links in the first page of hits, all of them were that purple color of links that had been visited, except one. So after I posted above, I visited the blue link that I hadn't visited before.

It was a camera supply store in Hong Kong. They had a sale on Linhof gear, with some items on clearance. They listed this item for HK$660 marked down from I thin HK$3800--US$85 marked down from just under US$500. I emailed them, and they still had it. I paid, and its on its way to me now.

Unfortuately the GS-1 backs are 6x7, and I much prefer 6x9, but I already have 4 GS-1 backs, and they are much smaller than the Linhof Rollex or Super Rollex. So I'm kind of stoked that the adapter may still be a unicorn, but at least it will be my unicorn.

What great luck! Sometimes persistence pays off. How do you advance the film? I see that the keh one is " modified with Linhof advance knob" that I assume fits on the first frame advance dial of the Bronica back. Is that part of the adapter?
 

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It looks like the zebra knob is part of kit I'll be getting. I don't know if it is a permanant swap or can be swapped between backs on the fly. If it cant be swapped, it is possible to advance the back without it, its just that the thumb wheel doesn't give great purchase, so the knob will be nicer.

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I have a number of cams in my drawer. One 180mm, 100, 65. marked for an Apo-Lanthar, One 180, 80, 53. One uncut. Three lens boards. No longer have the camera. If anyone is interested in buying drop me a PM
 
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