Smena Symbol

Smena Symbol type 4b (1978) image by Süleyman Demir (Image rights)

Smena Symbol (Смена Символ) is a viewfinder 35mm film camera made by LOMO and produced between 1970-93. Smena Symbol = Смена Символ, Smena means Young Generation or Relay.

There are 8 types and 3 sub-types of the Smena-Symbol. Export types were named as Revue 135 Symbol, Panorama, and Cosmic Symbol.

The list of all Smena models is in the article Smena Series by GOMZ & MMZ & LOMO.

Smena Symbol type 3 (1971-72) image by Antti Lehtinen  (Image rights)

^{by Ryszard Kobus}

Specifications

• Lens:LOMO (ЛОМО) T-43 (Triplet) 40mm f/4 filter slip-on
  • Modernized cameras that were produced later with fast black surface "Industar-73" 40mm f/2.8 lens
  • Aperture: f/4-f/16
  • Focus range: 1-10m +inf
• Focusing: manual, guess the distance or use symbols on the scale
• Shutter: leaf shutter, speeds: 1/15-1/250 +B w/synchronizer
  • Setting: ring and double scale on the lens shutter barrel, you can use either the symbols or numeric scales
• Shutter release: on the lens-shutter barrel w/cable release socket
• Cocking lever: also winds the film, on the back of the front plate
• Frame counter: auto-reset, advance type, window on the back of the top plate
• Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder, reduced size displaced to allow a rewind crank
• Film speed memo on camera back
• Hot-shoe
• Body: plastic
• serial no. on the bottom plate, the first two digits show the production year

Smena Symbol type 4b (1978)

Cosmic Symbol type 1a (1971-91) image by Symon Pierce  (Image rights)

Symbol-136

Modernized Smena Symbol camera with fast Industar-73 2.8/40mm lens. Very few of these cameras released in 1977-79.

Notes and references

SMENA SYMBOL

Links

• Smena Symbol Review on http://blog.bkspicture.com/
• in Fotoua by Alexander Komarov
• in SovietCams by Aidas Pikiotas
• in We Use Film
• At www.collection-appareils.fr
  • Gomz Smena Symbol
  • Gomz Cosmic Symbol

• Smena Symbol at r-kobus.eu