The Smena Symbol (also marked "Смена Символ" "Smena Symvol", or called Cosmic Symbol) is a 35mm camera that features a LOMO T-43 40mm f/4 coated triplet lens. It was produced from 1973-1993 by LOMO in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. Production estimates are in the 10s of millions.
In essence, the Symbol is an improved Smena 8m with a film advance lever (replacing the knob) coupled with shutter cocking, which make the camera much faster and more convenient in use. Smoothly working shutter release lever replaced the crude button on top of the Smena 8M body, sadly the cord release socket was deleted. A flash is now synchronized by a hot shoe contact instead.
The lens - similarly to the Smena 8M - is equipped with symbolic scales: weather symbols as additional shutter speed scale, and the distance scale with distance symbols, meter values and feet values mixed. Below the lens tube is a second speed scale, a numeric one running from 1/15-1/250 + B. The weather symbol scale has a smart indexing system allowing double distance of the weather symbols compared to value distances on the numeric scale- that is, the weather symbols are apparently more widely spaced than the shutter speeds, which are on the same ring. The symbols are indexed by white squares appearing in holes beside the symbols; the holes are at two different distances from the body.
mngikut apa yg saya lihat pada smena symbol ini, ianya sama juga seperti Vilia lomo, seakan2 dan lebih kurang. cuma dinamakan symbol kerana terdapat weather symbol2 seperti awan, bangunan, matahari sbgai symbol utk memudahkan setting bagi mereka yg pening nak baca aperture n shutter speed...mgkin ini satu revolusi nak kasi peminat lomo lebih girang.ekeke..ayat ngko doi....loikk...okeh...susah senang jatuh bangun, belasah je la..janji layan...
love analogue camera :)
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