[LargeFormat] Any GOMZ-LOMO FK owners out there?

[Ken Hough]

Did you know the "Grand dad" of this camera is the Rochester Optical 
Premo. Its the tailboard version. Circa 1893-1910.
Yours looks like a 1980s vintage?
Ken

From:           	Marco Pauck <marco@pauck.de>
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I just got a FK 18x24 large format camera, the version
manufactured by GOMZ-LOMO. After some CLA, it's now ready
for the field:

	http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/fk/opened.jpg
	http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/fk/closed.jpg
	http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stuff/fk/lens.jpg

Yes, I plan to actually use this archaic camera! ;-)

Well, for me it's just the usual kind of self abuse by
East European equipment, but I'm wondering how this camera
was deployed by the poor Russian fellow photographers,
especially considering that it was manufactured until 1987
(according to Princelle). Was it actually used? In the field
or in the studio? Any anecdotes?  ;-)

One point is that the film holders are for glass plates,
not sheet film. Where glass plates still common in Russia
during the 80ths of the last century? Or is there a later
version of the film holder that is prepared for sheet film?

Any tips for converting a glass plate holder to sheet film?

	Marco
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Marco Pauck -- marco@pauck.de -- http://www.pauck.de/marco/
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple,
neat, and wrong.  -- H. L. Mencken

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