belgium collector

Hello

as a new member i wanted to introduce myself ,i am a Belgium photographic collector intrested in many type's of vintage camera's ,during years of collecting i have 900 vintage camera's in my collection ,the biggest part are Amerikan ,European and japanees camera's ,past year 2007 i start to collect russia vintage camera's ,like zorki ,fed ,gomz ,Zenith.

Feel free to take a look on my homepage to see a part of my beauty's

http://blog.seniorennet.be/retrocameras

This week i found a Gomz fotokor ,with Gomz schutter 25-50-100-K-A time's ,some websites say this is a glasplate folder ,other say its sheetfilm camera ????who can tel me the wright information about ??

greatings
Newfy

Hello Newfy,

welcome to USSRPhoto.com! Excellent web site and a LOT of cameras, I will have to spend some time there .

Fotokor is a glass plate camera but it also takes aftermarket Rollfilm adapters that lets you use the 120 film on it.. It is possible it can also take the sheet film backs, I would not be surprised, but it would probably be aftermarket modification just like rollfilm adapter. There are quite a few ingenious devices made for that camera.

Although I just was going through a bag with different Fotkor plates ( I got 4 sets) and found an interesting device.. It's a double sided back for Fotokor that does not look like to be an original GOMZ piece, (it says GMTP Z-D Metiz, g.Kiev on it), that seems to be able to take a sheet film and maybe glass plates as well.. if you're interested I can take pictures and post that item here. Oh, the stuff I discover at my own house that I never knew about... ehehhehe... I guess acquiring more than 200 cameras in 6 months just made me less attentive to specific details for individual pieces... .. of course the Moskva 3 #5000006 was the biggest discover in my own house to date ... hehe.. who needs camera shows, eh?

Best regards,

Vlad.

Hello Newfy,

very impressive website ... thanks! And welcome to the forum!


Regards,
Aidas