Smena (camera)

Smena (Russian: Смена, Eng: "Change") is a series of low-cost 35 mm film cameras manufactured in the Soviet Union by the LOMO factory from 1953 to 1991.

[1] They were designed to be inexpensive and accessible to the public, made of bakelite or black plastic for the later models.

[2] Their mode of operation was exclusively manual,[1] to the extent that winding of film is separated from shutter cocking.

In the 1960s and 1970s they were exported by Soviet era export conglomerate Mashpriborintorg (Russian: Машприборинторг).

[2][3] Austrian company Lomographische AG now promotes Smenas, as exclusive distributor under agreement with LOMO PLC.