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Edited on 8/6/2007 11:41:03 PM by Vlad

Fotokor Blue

This is an interesting version of the 1930s Fotokor camera. It has a blue leather covering and a portrait of V.I. Lenin with signature embossed in leather on the bed of the camera.

There were about a million of Fotokors produced, some like this one were "Special Editions"

Fotokor was the name of folding-bed plate cameras made by the Soviet manufacturer GOMZ, starting in the 1930s. These cameras were imitations of the standard cameras of their type made in Europe, by such makers as Zeiss-Ikon, but they were not equal to their quality. The early Fotokor's came with Compur and Vario shutters and are very rare now. The late Fotokor-1 came with locally made VOOMP shutters and are quite common indeed.

Produced: 1930-1939
Name: „Фотокор-1“
Producer: GOMZ
Frame size: 9x12 cm.
Lens: GOMZ Ortagoz 4.5/135.
Shutter: 1/25s, 1/50s, 1/100s + K+ D.

Quantity: ± 1.000.000 units. (www.sovietcams.com)


From collection of Vladislav Kern