Smena is a series of low-cost 35 mm film

35 mm film

35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography and motion pictures. The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 35 millimeters in width...

 camera

Camera

A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...

s manufactured in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 by the LOMO

LOMO

LOMO or Leningrad Optical Mechanical Amalgamation is a manufacturer of advanced optical instruments, medical equipment, consumer still and movie cameras, projectors, lenses, film editors, splicers, professional sound recorders for motion-picture production based in St. Petersburg, Russia...

 factory from 1953 to 1991. These cameras were designed to be inexpensive and accessible to the public, made of bakelite or black plastic for the later models, and totally manually operated. Even winding of film is separated from shutter cocking. All parameters should be set manually and without any helping system.
In the 60s and 70s they were exported by Soviet era export conglomerate Mashpriborintorg

Mashpriborintorg

Federal State Unitary Enterprise Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg also known as V/O Mashpriborintorg was a Soviet era export conglomerate. During the late 50s, 60s and 70s it exported millions of units of photographic and cinematic equipment to about 74 countries worldwide. According...

 . Austrian company Lomographische AG

Lomography

Lomography is the commercial trademark of Lomographische AG, Austria for products and services catering to the Global Modern art community of Lomographic photography. The name is inspired by the former state-run optics manufacturer LOMO PLC of Saint Petersburg, Russia...

 now promotes Smenas, as exclusive distributor under agreement with LOMO PLC.

Smena 8M

• Lens: Triplet 43, 40 mm, f/4, 3 elements
• Focal range: 1 m to infinity, scale-focus
  Scale-focus
  Scale focus, or zone focus, is a type of focusing system used by many inexpensive cameras from the 1940s and 1950s. These cameras have an adjustable focus, but lack a focusing aid such as a rangefinder. It is necessary to determine the distance to the subject and set the focus using a scale printed...
  
  
• Shutter speeds : B, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250
• Shutter type: 3 blades diaphragm shutter
• Apertures: f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16
• Film type: 35 mm film
  35 mm film
  35 mm film is the film gauge most commonly used for chemical still photography and motion pictures. The name of the gauge refers to the width of the photographic film, which consists of strips 35 millimeters in width...
  
  
• Size: 70 x 100 x 60 mm
• Weight: 289 g

Models

The Smena models are:

• Smena
• Smena-2
• Smena-2M
• Smena-3
• Smena-4
• Smena-5
• Smena-6
• Smena-7
• Smena-8 or Cosmic 35 for the UK market.
• Smena-8M
• Smena-9
• Smena-35
• Smena-Rapid
• Smena-Symbol
• Smena-M

External links

• Smena page on the Lomography website
• Few images taken with Smena Cosmic