Sport

yes but how can I find a the missing cassette for the sport... I'll have to build one with the remaining one as exemple ? ;-)

Stephan

Stephan, I'll keep my eyes open for you, there isn't one for sale now but they turn up from time to time...

Vlad

Umm... guys...what is this?????!!!

http://www.molotok.ru/show_item.php?item=432905626

Did early ones really had no black paint on top or this is a stripped and re-chromed one?
Vlad

Princelle mentions a Gelveta-Sport with a chrome front plate, but calls it "non-original" (page 41 ... 2nd edition). I think it is non-original too, but if the lens is original, then it is an early example, so who knows if it could be a variation. What does the seller say?

Regards, Bill

Hi Bill!

haven't talked to you in a long time :) Thanks for reply! Yea I figured that much, seems like sort of like my own Sport with stripped paint, but this one was taken one step further with re-chroming.. The seller just says that it has unusual silver top, that's all.. no claims of any kind besides that it's the the first year release of 1935-1936 (in which I doubt the 1935 part ).

Vlad

Vlad,

It would appear that you and I own two very unique Sport cameras, even though neither are original.

Steve

I guess I enjoy what I could afford , a nice clean Sport can run close to $1000, this one went for $3400! My god!

Vlad

I guess the $8000 TSVVS would do better on this market rather than the local eBay.

Steve

Exhumation (!) of post...
At least, I have decided to buy a GOMZ Sport.
This last version arrived lately. Nickel plated lens n° 16771, and rare (?) internal number of 9114.


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/952025_IMG_1897.JPG


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/952025_IMG_1896.JPG

Perfectly working, as far as I can see. And it has its two spools. Even the reflex finder is usable. But all that is rather baffling...

A question: do we know the meaning of this internal number?

Side by side, "the" two prewar SLR. Not the same philosophy, nor the same filiation...


http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent2/952025_IMG_1902.JPG

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Congrats, Sport is a very interesting beast!

Best regards,
Juhani

Yes Juhani, a very interesting and strange beast, as you say.
A pure Eastern conception and design...
I have put the Sport and the Exakta side by side on my shelves. Perhaps they will talk of the German Soviet pact of 1939?

Amitiйs. Jacques.