93 - GOMZ | Reporter

GOMZ | Reporter Estimate: €4,800–6,000 Year: 1938 Serial No.: 233 Condition: B/C English: Sophisticated Soviet professional press camera, developed at GOMZ in Leningrad by Andronik K. Ioannisiani. The Reporter was designed for 6.5 × 9 cm plates and combines a coupled rangefinder with ground-glass focusing, interchangeable bayonet-mounted lenses, and a cloth focal-plane shutter with speeds up to 1/1000 sec. Fitted with the original Industar-7 3.5/10.5 cm no. 192362, along with the rare original GOMZ lens cap. Produced in very limited numbers and surviving today in exceptionally limited quantities, the Reporter represents one of the most ambitious Soviet professional cameras of the pre-war period. The camera offered here is in completely original, used condition with a non-functioning shutter. German: A technically sophisticated Soviet professional press camera, developed at GOMZ in Leningrad by Andronik K. Ioannisiani. The Reporter is designed for 6.5 × 9 cm plates and combines a coupled rangefinder with a ground-glass viewfinder, interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses, and a cloth-curtain shutter with speeds up to 1/1000 of a second. It comes with the original Industar-7 3.5/10.5 cm lens (No. 192362) and a rare original GOMZ lens cap. Produced in very limited numbers and extremely rare today, the Reporter ranks among the most ambitious Soviet professional cameras of the pre-war era. The specimen offered here is in completely original, used condition; the shutter does not function.