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Most recent entries with tag “smena”

• Dutch Vintage Ads for Russian Cams

  posted by lucasjakobsson on September 28th, 2008, 18 comments so far
  Tags: sniper, zenit, horizion, smena, lubitel, vintage, and vintage ads

  

  swieconek from the community visited a fleamarket some time ago in Bruges, Belgium and came across some real vintage goodies: A store booklet containing original Dutch ads for Russian cameras in their youth (1968)!

• Count to Three for Russian Photography

  posted by lucasjakobsson on September 16th, 2008, 3 comments so far
  Tags: deadstock, smena, kiev 4, fed 3, offer, competition, and winner

  

  The Russian Guide to Photography

• Deadstock Tale by grimbyname: Smena Symbol

  posted by pan_dre on September 16th, 2008, 5 comments so far
  Tags: russian, smena, symbol, and deadstock

  

  In the summer of 2006, while doing a bit of mindless web wandering, I discovered the weird and wonderful community of film-addicted lomographers, and wanted to join in. Looking through the homes and shop, while waiting for a Fisheye 2 to arrive, it didn’t take me long to discover that I already possessed a bona-fide lomographic Russian deadstock tool, a Symbol bought for me by my father in the early eighties. He was a keen amateur photographer, owning both Zenit and Praktica SLRs, a Zorki 4K rangefinder, all with a variety of lenses, and his own black and white darkroom kit too. For some reason he’d decided to buy a Symbol each for me and my mother, most probably because they were cheap, about £8 if I remember correctly. I already had a Fed 4 (a ‘proper’ camera with coupled rangefinder and built-in light meter) that my parents had bought me for being a smart lad for passing my 11-plus exam for the grammar school, so the Symbol, UK branded as Cosmic rather than Smena, saw little use, and I don’t even know if any pics remain from its early days. Smena means ‘Young Generation’, which is when I first became acquainted with the Symbol. Cosmic sounds rather fantastical, spacey even, or perhaps an exclamation from a zoned-out hippy. No matter, I’m not afraid to admit to having been all those things at one time or another. And the photographic evidence of much of that is hopefully locked in a secure vault somewhere. Anyway, I digress.

• Extended Rumble: Smena Symbol

  posted by kazarareta on September 2nd, 2008, 14 comments so far
  Tags: smena, rumble, round-the-clock, and challenge

  

  While we received a really good picking for the Smena Symbol day shots, we are still on the lookout for other brilliant Symbol lomographs, but this time only for the following, in HORIZONTAL/LANDSCAPE orientation only:

• Smena Symbol Rumble Winners

  posted by somapic on September 1st, 2008, 14 comments so far
  Tags: rumble, challenge, smena, and film

  

  Again you didn´t make it an easy choice for us to select the winners of the latest round- the- clock special rumble. But finally we made our choice.

• Smena 8m Rumble Winners

  posted by lucasjakobsson on September 1st, 2008, 15 comments so far
  Tags: smena 8m, rumble, challange, smena, and film

  

  For all of those that have patiently been waiting for the winners of the Smena 8m rumble, the time has come!

• Round-the-Clock Special Rumble: Smena Symbol

  posted by kazarareta on August 28th, 2008, 14 comments so far
  Tags: film, smena, challenge, and rumble

  

  RUMBLE IS NOW CLOSED. STAY TUNED FOR THE UPCOMING WINNERS SOON!

• Round-the-Clock Special Rumble: Smena 8m

  posted by kazarareta on August 28th, 2008, 22 comments so far
  Tags: film, smena, challenge, rumble, and smena 8m

  

  RUMBLE IS NOW CLOSED. STAY TUNED FOR THE UPCOMING WINNERS SOON!