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Whilst looking for something else I came across an old camera a LOMO Cosmic 35 from Leningrad Russia. The same type of camera was mine brought ( I'm guessing second hand) from Dixons in Wolverhampton. Somewhere in the early to mid 1970's. The reason I'm guessing second hand is beacause my sisters and mother already had the later later Cosmic 35m.
Here a pic ( not the actual camera I had)
The camera had no light meter so everything was shot using the Sunny 16 rule. As a kid I found this a little confusing but soon copied the scale /shutter speed from my Mother 35m on a bit of paper and sellotaped it inside the case ( I thought I was being really clever here !)
The later 35m sunny 16 helper the same idea as the Cosmic/Smena Symbol
My Cosmic 35 for comparison
As a rule 99% of the time I kept the distance scale to infinity only altering it if the subject was really close. My dad had a fascination for all things Russian and as a kid could never understand if we hated Russia so much ( Cold War era) How come you could buy their stuff ? He had been a Radio operator in the Occupation Of Germany after WW2 and we used to build radios together and I used to listen to various stations Voice of America/ Russian ( plus many others) but they seemed hate each other. I can remember hearing my mother friend saying it was raining because Russia have a weather machine !
The Cosmic 35m is/was my Mothers actual camera. Both camera came with a nice leather case. I can say I had a genuine LOMO camera from the Leningradskoe Optiko Mechanichesckoe Objedinenie company !
Just as an example here is a fairly recent ( 3 or 4 years ago) photo from the Cosmic 35 using as I remember Kentmere 100 or 400
Whats was your first camera ?
Whilst looking for something else I came across an old camera a LOMO Cosmic 35 from Leningrad Russia. The same type of camera was mine brought ( I'm guessing second hand) from Dixons in Wolverhampton. Somewhere in the early to mid 1970's. The reason I'm guessing second hand is beacause my sisters and mother already had the later later Cosmic 35m.
Here a pic ( not the actual camera I had)
The camera had no light meter so everything was shot using the Sunny 16 rule. As a kid I found this a little confusing but soon copied the scale /shutter speed from my Mother 35m on a bit of paper and sellotaped it inside the case ( I thought I was being really clever here !)
The later 35m sunny 16 helper the same idea as the Cosmic/Smena Symbol
My Cosmic 35 for comparison
As a rule 99% of the time I kept the distance scale to infinity only altering it if the subject was really close. My dad had a fascination for all things Russian and as a kid could never understand if we hated Russia so much ( Cold War era) How come you could buy their stuff ? He had been a Radio operator in the Occupation Of Germany after WW2 and we used to build radios together and I used to listen to various stations Voice of America/ Russian ( plus many others) but they seemed hate each other. I can remember hearing my mother friend saying it was raining because Russia have a weather machine !
The Cosmic 35m is/was my Mothers actual camera. Both camera came with a nice leather case. I can say I had a genuine LOMO camera from the Leningradskoe Optiko Mechanichesckoe Objedinenie company !
Just as an example here is a fairly recent ( 3 or 4 years ago) photo from the Cosmic 35 using as I remember Kentmere 100 or 400
Whats was your first camera ?
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