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

[Clive Warren]

At 4:39 pm +0100 27/1/02, Marco Pauck wrote:
>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
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>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?

Hello Marco,

That's some beast! What sort of film do you intend to use with it?

There are film sheaths available for smaller plate sizes to allow the 
use of 4x5 and 5x7 sheet film with plate holders, but I have never 
seen any for 18x24. If you can get hold of film holders you may find 
that they will fit the back and you will only lose a little on the 
film where it is perhaps masked by the opening in the camera back.

Given your interest in pano formats I have been conjuring with some 
mental images of chopped darkslides for two 9x24 images on each sheet 
of film. Well I was until realising that your camera is probably 
18cmx24cm  rather than inches :-) It is cm isn't it?

Labs in this country used plates right up into the 90's (that's the 
C20th rather than C19th).

Cheers,
        Clive