One of the chicest and cutest of all compact 35mm film cameras is undoubtedly the all-plastic-bodied LOMO Smena 35, the latest model of the Smena viewfinder series produced by LOMO in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia. The Smena 35 is an update of the popular Smena 8M. During its production years from 1990 to 1993, the Smena 35 was produced in various colored plastic bodies with the front and backplate in black, white, red, yellow, titanium grey, and blue. The front plate of the Smena 35 features a line in yellow, green, white, orange, or blue emphasizing the 'Smena' logo across the top plate.
The camera lens faceplate is either in white, black, or matching the body color, while the 'Smena' alphabet is in white, grey, or black, and the '35' numeric based on the color of the feature line. The plastic tip of the leaf shutter lever and hot shoe cover is normally red.
Internal components of the all-mechanical Smena 35 are basically similar to the Smena 8M, with the same plain tunnel viewfinder, multi-coated three-element Anastigmat T-43 lens with aperture setting from F4 to F16, and shutter speeds set from 1/15 to 1/250 second as well as B.
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