Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Smena LOMO

Smena or Cmeha is a Russian camera brand that has series of 35mm film cameras. They are manufactured in the Soviet Union era from

1952 until 1991 in the LOMO factory. These Smena camera is usually made of black plastic or bakelite (earlier models) and they are all manually operated.

In Russian, Smena loosely translated to the meaning of 'young generation'.

** LOMO is an acronymn for Leningradskoye Optiko Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie. (Leningrad Optical-Mechanical Amalgamation/Enterprise)

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