Help to identify an old folding camera

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Topic author: kingscoins83

Posted on: 20120913063124

Hello everyone.

Please help me to identify the camera from the pictures. It belonged to my grandfather who passed it on to me allong with other photo equipment.

4,5x6 soviet folding plate camera
Image 1 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ek7y
Image 2 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ekco
Image 3 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ekgU
Image 4 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ekmN
Image 5 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ekqu
Image 6 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ek2m
Image 7 - http://flic.kr/p/d8ejW9

Any opinions are welcome. Thank you in advance.

Best wishes.

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Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20120913084201

Hi,

I'm just curious, what led you to believe this camera is Soviet?

Cheers,
Vlad

Reply author: kingscoins83

Replied on: 20120913084624

Hello,

I belive the writting on the front that says "OZO3". I'm just guessing, that's why I'm here, to find more about this little camera.

Best wishes.

Reply author: Vlad

Replied on: 20120913142629

Sorry, it's not Soviet, Cyrillic alphabet does not have a letter "Z".. your best bet is posting this on IDCC mailing list to see maybe someone knows anything about it..

http://lists.kjsl.com/mailman/listinfo/idcc

Cheers,
Vlad.

Reply author: kingscoins83

Replied on: 20120913145042

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion. I will do that and after I will post here their response.

Best wishes.

Reply author: Luiz Paracampo

Replied on: 20120914090456

I believe the shutter is engraved Mono!
LP

Reply author: kingscoins83

Replied on: 20120915022030

Hello,

When I've started searching for this camera I also thought at this possibility. Unfortunately hadn't much luck with that either, "Mono" being a very generic word especially in photography. But I will start looking for it again more thoroughly, thank you for reminding me of that.

Best wishes.