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| − | The '''Turist''' (Турист) was a strut folding camera with a rectangular bakelite body. It was made in the USSR. It belonged to the three main camera products of the soviet market in 1936 (ten year after soviet camera industry started) which were the strut folder Turist, the folding-bed camera [[Fotokor|Fotokor No. 1]] (and a similar camera made by [[Arfo]]) which was expected to be a soviet [[Avus]], and as top product the 35mm rangefinder camera [[FED NKVD|FED]]. In the same year the first series of prototypes of the [[Sport]] 35mm SLR camera was ready and criticized in Sovjetskoe Foto issue 1936/7. That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end soviet camera product of its time, alike the Fotokor not reaching the Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products aleady reached for the promising 35mm camera market on | + | The '''Turist''' (Турист) was a strut folding camera with a rectangular bakelite body. It was made in the USSR. It belonged to the three main camera products of the soviet market in 1936 (ten year after soviet camera industry started) which were the strut folder Turist, the folding-bed camera [[Fotokor|Fotokor No. 1]] (and a similar camera made by [[Arfo]]) which was expected to be a soviet [[Avus]], and as top product the 35mm rangefinder camera [[FED NKVD|FED]]. In the same year the first series of prototypes of the [[Sport]] 35mm SLR camera was ready and criticized in Sovjetskoe Foto issue 1936/7. That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end soviet camera product of its time, alike the Fotokor not reaching the Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products aleady reached for the promising 35mm camera market on an advanced quality level. |
*Type: strut folding plate camera | *Type: strut folding plate camera | ||
Revision as of 13:54, 25 November 2006
The Turist (Турист) was a strut folding camera with a rectangular bakelite body. It was made in the USSR. It belonged to the three main camera products of the soviet market in 1936 (ten year after soviet camera industry started) which were the strut folder Turist, the folding-bed camera Fotokor No. 1 (and a similar camera made by Arfo) which was expected to be a soviet Avus, and as top product the 35mm rangefinder camera FED. In the same year the first series of prototypes of the Sport 35mm SLR camera was ready and criticized in Sovjetskoe Foto issue 1936/7. That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end soviet camera product of its time, alike the Fotokor not reaching the Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products aleady reached for the promising 35mm camera market on an advanced quality level.
- Type: strut folding plate camera
- Manufacturer: ?
- Year of release: 1934
- Film: 6.5×9 plate
- Lens: GOMZ Industar 1:3.5/105 mm
- Shutter: Automat 1/25-1/100 shutter
