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The '''Turist''' (Турист) was a strut folding camera with a rectangular bakelite body, made in the USSR.
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The '''Turist''' (Турист) was a strut [[folding camera]] with a rectangular [[Bakelite]] body, made in the USSR.
  
The Turist was one of the three main camera products of the Soviet market in 1936 (ten years after the Soviet camera industry started), the two others being 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  the July 1936 issue of ''Sovjetskoe Foto.'' That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end Soviet camera product of its time, like the Fotokor in falling short of Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products aleady reached for the promising 35mm camera market on an advanced quality level.
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The Turist was one of the three main camera products of the Soviet market in 1936 (ten years after the Soviet camera industry started), the two others being 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 [[FED NKVD|FED]] [[rangefinder camera]]. In the same year the first series of prototypes of the [[Sport]] 35mm [[SLR]] camera was ready and criticized in  the July 1936 issue of ''Sovjetskoe Foto.'' That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end Soviet camera product of its time, like the Fotokor in falling short of Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products already reached for the promising 35mm camera market on an advanced quality level.
  
*Type: strut folding plate camera
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* Type: strut folding plate camera
*Manufacturer: [[GOMZ]]
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* Manufacturer: [[GOMZ]]
*Year of release: 1934
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* Year of release: 1934
*Film: 6.5×9 plate
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* Film: 6.5×9 plate
*Lens: [[GOMZ]] Industar 1:3.5/105 mm
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* Lens: [[GOMZ]] Industar 1:3.5/105 mm
*Shutter: Automat 1/25-1/100 shutter
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* Shutter: Automat 1/25-1/100 shutter
*Finder: frame finder with optical elements, and additional sports finder
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* Finder: [[viewfinder#Frame_Finder|frame finder]] with optical elements, and additional [[sports finder]]
  
 
[[Category:6.5x9 strut folding]]
 
[[Category:6.5x9 strut folding]]

Revision as of 21:26, 11 July 2008

The Turist (Турист) was a strut folding camera with a rectangular Bakelite body, made in the USSR.

The Turist was one of the three main camera products of the Soviet market in 1936 (ten years after the Soviet camera industry started), the two others being 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 FED rangefinder camera. In the same year the first series of prototypes of the Sport 35mm SLR camera was ready and criticized in the July 1936 issue of Sovjetskoe Foto. That camera still needed some refinement until its production in 1937. So the Turist is the low-end Soviet camera product of its time, like the Fotokor in falling short of Soviet photographers' high expectations, whilst the high-end products already reached for the promising 35mm camera market on an advanced quality level.

  • Type: strut folding plate camera
  • Manufacturer: GOMZ
  • Year of release: 1934
  • Film: 6.5×9 plate
  • Lens: GOMZ Industar 1:3.5/105 mm
  • Shutter: Automat 1/25-1/100 shutter
  • Finder: frame finder with optical elements, and additional sports finder