Announced in 1939 as a new version of Fotokor-1 camera with frame size 6.5x9 cm. Fitted with new advanced "TEMP" shutter (Compur copy) and Industar-7 3.5/105 mm lens. No otherwise different from its "grandfather". Never produced in series.


  

Produced: 1939-1941
Name: „Фотокор-3“
Producer: GOMZ
Frame size: 6.5x9 cm.
Lens: Industar-7  3.5/105.
Shutter: 1s-1/200s + K+ D.

Quantity: unknown, but very few.



PK0405. This Fotokor-3 specimen opposite was equipped with new style "GOMZ" shutter, instead of planned "TEMP". Industar-7 lens. (source: L.D.Riftin & G.J.Grinevich book "Mechanics of Camera Shutter", 1939). 

PK0405 - Fotokor-3 camera.

PK0410. The very 1st so far known Fotokor-3 camera. As already described above, camera opposite is fitted with advanced "TEMP" shutter, speeds: 1s, 1/2s, 1/5s, 1/10s, 1/25s, 1/50s, 1/100s, 1/200s + K +D. Fast Industar-7  3.5/105 mm interchangeable (!) lens. An exposure calculator on the top plate, near the external finder. Shutter's serial number indicates a year 1940 as a date of camera release. Overall very nice body finish.

Camera opposite comes from private collection in Russia.

PK0410 - Fotokor-3 camera.