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+ | *[http://www.rangefinder.ru/manual/instructions/cameras/fotokor1.pdf Fotokor-1 user manual (pdf)] at [http://www.rangefinder.ru/ Rangefinder.ru] (in Russian) | ||
* [http://www.sovietcams.com/index9505.html?tmpl_into=middle&tmpl_id=129&_m_e_id=20&_menu_i_id=287 Fotokor-1] in [http://www.sovietcams.com/ Sovietcams.com] | * [http://www.sovietcams.com/index9505.html?tmpl_into=middle&tmpl_id=129&_m_e_id=20&_menu_i_id=287 Fotokor-1] in [http://www.sovietcams.com/ Sovietcams.com] | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080208093222/http://www.rus-camera.com/camera.php?page=other&camera=fotokor in rus-camera.com] (archived) | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080208093222/http://www.rus-camera.com/camera.php?page=other&camera=fotokor in rus-camera.com] (archived) |
Latest revision as of 06:49, 25 November 2022
Fotokor-1, 1934. image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
Fotokor-1 is a folding bed plate film camera, manufactured by GOMZ , (Gosularstvennyi Optiko-Mekhanicheskii Zavod = State Optical-Mechanical Factory), Leningrad, USSR, and produced between 1930-41. Formerly the factory's name was VOOMP. Fotokor (Фотокор) is also known Photokor or Photocor in the west. Fotokor means Photo journalist (= Foto-korrespondent in Russian). It is deeply inspired from ICA Ideal or Nagel Recomar; in fact all plate cameras of the same period resemble each other, but just of moderate quality. Nevertheless it became the first million-seller of Soviet camera production. Estimated 1.3 million Fotokor-1 were made. Fotokor-1 offered with Compur, and Vario (in very early models) and GOMZ shutters, Ortagoz (most common), and Industar-2 lenses. There are a lot of versions of Fotokor-1. Fotokor-3 (1938-41) is a late version of Fotokor series.
Specifications
This data belongs to the camera in the pictures.
- Model: 1934, type 4d, (produced only in 1934). This type 4d is a very rare camera in the Fotokor-1 series [1]
- Format: 9x12cm plate
- Lens: VOOMP Anastigmat Ortagoz (ВOОМП AHACTИГMAT OPTAГOЗ), 135mm f/4.5; Aperture:f/4.5-f/36[2]
- Focusing: bellows focusing by a thumb wheel on the right of the front plate, pointer on the lower left of the lens standart, distance scale on the left of the front plate; Focus range: 1.5-10m +inf
- Shutter: GOMZ ( ГОМЗ); speeds: 1/25, 1/50, 1/100 + B & T (К & Д = K&D) [3], [4]
- Cocking and Shutter release: by the same lever, manual shutter cocking and releasing on the same time, for the speed settings, by pressing once the lever, the diaphragm opens and closes
- Viewfinders:
- Waist level Brilliant Finder on top of the lens standard, turning 90 degrees left on its own axis for landscape pictures, w/ red sprit level
- Sports finder: A big wire sports finder, hinged on the lens standard and used with a folding rear peep sight frame,
- Bellows: double extension, slides vertically and horizontally with the micrometer screws on the lens standard
- Back cover: as a ground glass screen, w/ lid and cloth hood, removes by sliding upwards via unlocking its latch, then you can fit the plate film holder [5]
- Others: Tripod socket 3/8inch; Lugs for leather hand grip [6]
- Body: metal ; Weight: 1035g
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Fotokor-1, 1934.
Images by Süleyman Demir (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Formerly in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov (archived)
- ↑ Ortagoz lens seems a Dallmeyer Rapid Rectilinear variant
- ↑ GOMZ shutter is a copy of Vario shutter of Gauthier
- ↑ Engravings on the shutter dial: ВOОМП (VOOMP) logo and very early ГОМЗ (GOMZ) logo
- ↑ Engraving on the back cover: VOOMP logo
- ↑ Engraving on the hand grip:Фотокор No.1 (= Fotokor No.1, the T's italic form is M in Russian)
Links
- Fotokor-1 user manual (pdf) at Rangefinder.ru (in Russian)
- Fotokor-1 in Sovietcams.com
- in rus-camera.com (archived)
- Photo art page of a photographer who uses the Fotokor