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«Фотокор № 1» (также « Фотокор - 1 », часто — просто «Фотокор») — советский пластиночный складной фотоаппарат 1930—1940-х годов. Представлял. Описание: Фотокор - 1 — пластиночная складная "универсальная" камера форматом 9х12 с двойным растяжением. Объектив непросветленный.
- Как снимать на Фотокор - 1 Название ему " Фотокор - 1 ". т.к. действовал в точности по инструкции ("Советское фото", №3, 1931 г.).
- 05/07/2015 18:16. В раздел Инструкции -Фотоаппараты- Фотокор выложена книга Н.М.Ильина " Фотокор № 1 ". Издано в Государственном издательстве.
- Расстояние объектива f=13,5 см, относительное отвер- стие 4,5, угол изображения 57°. Объектив «Ортагоз» применялся в фотоаппарате « Фотокор - 1 ».
Engravings on the shutter dial: logos of ВOОМП (VOOMP) and ГОМЗ (GOMZ). **the GOMZ logo was different at those days than the new logo on the Lubitel. **Fotokor (Фотокор) means Photo journalist (= Foto-korrespondent in Russian). Model: 1934, type 4d, (produced only in 1934). **Features of this type: engraving on the shutter dial of the GOMZ logo was changed and.
engraving VOOMP on the lens. All Fotokor-1 produced between 1930-41, quantity made 1. 300.
000. Folder bed film camera, film: plate, picture size: 9x12cm. Lens: VOOMP Anastigmat Ortagoz (ВOОМП AHACTИГMAT OPTAГOЗ), 135mm f/4. 5, filter slip-on, serial no. 103293. Aperture: f/4.
5-f/36, (older type aperture numbers); setting: dial and lever on the lens-shutter barrel. 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), serial no. 52088. setting.
dial and lever on the lens-shutter barrel. Cocking and Shutter release: by the same lever, on front of the lens-shutter barrel. manual shutter cocking and releasing on the same time, for the speed settings, by pressing once the lever, the diaphragm opens and closes. Cable release socket: on the lens-shutter barrel. 1) 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.
2) Sports finder: A big wire sports finder, hinged on the lens standard and used with a folding rear peep sight frame, on the left side of the camera. Bellows double extension, slides vertically and horizontally with the micrometer screws on the lens standard.
Front plate and bellows opening: front plate opens by a knob on the top side of the camera, unvisible cause it is under the leatherette cover, then pull the bellows forward by engaging its rails to the front cover mounted rails, then press the two milled, knob like chrome handles on front of the lens rails to inwards simultaneously, then pull out the bellows as far as reaching to the focus scale, stops with a click. Closing: simply pull in the bellows as far as it goes, than push the struts inwards.
Self-timer: none. 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. 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).
Tripod socket: 3/8''. Lugs for leather Hand grip.
Body: metal ; Weight: 1035g. serial no.
90929 (in the front plate). +Original case +Plate film holder.
This type 4d is a very rare camera in the Fotokor-1 series. Fotokor (ФОТОКОР) is also known Photokor or Photocor in the west. Fotokor-1 offered with Compur, and Vario (in very early models) and Gomz shutters, Ortagoz (most common), and Industar-2 lenses. It is deeply inspired from ICA Ideal or Nagel Recomar; in fact all plate cameras of the same period resemble each other. GOMZ shutter is a copy of Vario shutter of Gauthier.
Ortagoz lens seems a Dallmeyer Rapid Rectilinear variant. Fotokor is originally a glass-plate camera but it is not difficult to adapt holders for sheet-film. There are a lot of versions of Fotokor-1. Fotokor-3 (1938-41) is a late version of Fotokor series. A brief history of VOOMP & GOMZ. In 1929 the Council of Labour and Defence of the USSR decided to join all optical and mechanical factories of the era under the same name, "Union Trust opto-mechanical enterprises" (VTOMP), (= Всесоюзный Трест Оптико-Механических предприятий ВТОМП).
In 1930 VTOMP name changed as the Union of Optico-Mechanical Companies (VOOMP), (=Всесоюзное объединение оптико-механической промышленности, ВООМП). Under this name a small number of cameras and lenses were produced in the pre-war years, like folder Fotokor-1, VOOMP II Pioneer (one of the first Leica II copies made in the Soviet Union). In the transition times, VOOMP and very early GOMZ logos are seen together on the Fotokor-1 cameras. In 1932 the company was renamed again as "State Optical Mechanical Plant (GOMZ). In 1962 GOMZ became a part the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association of Enterprises (LOOMP), (= Ленинградское объединение оптико-механических предприятий, ЛООМП). In 1965 the name changed again as Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Union.
(LOMO), (= Ленинградское Oптико-Mеханическое Oбъединение, ЛОМО́). View more info about this photo.