Everything for lomography. The best cameras for lomography Lomographs La Sardina: we take color

Digital cameras have made a real revolution in the photographic world and art. Before, people were fond of photography, but it required certain efforts, because the film photo process was not fast. And now photography has become an occupation "nowhere easier." From a technical point of view; nothing has changed with creativity, and it pleases! The passion for photography has become available to a huge number of people. However, for all its attractiveness and accessibility, digital photography is devoid of its charm and charm inherent in film photography. So the Lomographic community believes that the days of the "film" are by no means numbered and the world should know about it.

A feature of lomographic survey is the method of photographing. This is done without using the viewfinder - pictures are taken from the position "from the shoulder", "from the hip", "from the knee", from behind the back, on the outstretched arm - whatever, the main thing is quickly and "without aiming", and the shooting itself is carried out on simple automatic film camera.
The name of this direction comes from the name of LOMO cameras, produced by the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association. At one time, these cameras were produced in millions of copies and were available to every Soviet family. So, there is a very high probability that compact film "LOMO" is still stored on the mezzanine in many post-Soviet families.

Here in the picture is the camera "Amateur" of the association "LOMO". My grandfather had one, though broken; it became one of my first childhood toys. There was no talk of any photography at the age of four. I just liked the way the shaft doors opened with a dry crack. Yes, it has a shaft viewfinder. And much later I found out that this device is medium format - it is designed for wide film, and negatives are obtained in the size of 6x6 centimeters, and this is considered cool in our time! We know that medium format Hasselblads cost sky-high prices and are almost a status thing! And then a simple "Amateur"! 🙂

How lomography originated

Lomography as a new photographic and very creative direction emerged in 1991 in Austria. Lomography refers to the type or method of photographing and the final photographs, the artistic value of which is not so much a single image in the picture as the total number of photographs, a certain series of them, united by one, global idea.

One day, two Austrian students of the Vienna Academy of Arts were on vacation in Prague. One of them, in a commission shop, for fun, bought a “hellish machine” for 12 dollars - a LOMO-compact automatic camera. While traveling around Prague, friends took pictures of everything without bothering to look into the viewfinder.

After returning home and printing Prague photographs, friends laid out panels from them. What happened as a result greatly impressed them: the colors of the photographs were brighter and more intense than usual, and invisible but tangible waves of warmth and kindness emanated from the pictures.

Due to the fact that the camera transmitted images with significant color and geometric distortions, it turned out, as it were, a peculiar and non-trivial view of the world around. And the lack of thoughtful staging of the frame documented everyday life events "as they are." The successful combination of technical imperfection and photographing life "as it is" was given the name "lomography" by the Viennese students.

The friends decided that the exhibition of lomographs (photographs taken with the LOMO-compact automatic machine) simply had to take place. At the same time, the students did not have money to organize and hold the event. Friends got out of the situation by registering themselves as an official organization and turning to the Vienna authorities for help. In such a simple way, in 1991, the International Lomographic Society appeared in Austria.

Currently, the Lomographic Society is the most powerful organization, with its offices in 70 countries. The ranks of lomographers are constantly replenished, and the photographic direction itself is spreading around the world by leaps and bounds. Lomographic offices help novice lomographers, distribute the latest news from other countries, organize and hold lomo contests, lomo parties, and lomo parties. The motto of the lomographic society is the phrase "love and motion" - this is how the Austrian creators deciphered the name LoMo - "love and motion".

Cameras for lomography

Not every camera, even if it is produced at the LOMO factory, is suitable for lomography. A peculiar and specific "lomo-frame", in most cases, can be achieved only with the help of "LOMO-Compact automatic". This becomes possible due to the fact that the device is equipped with a wide-angle lens (due to which the pictures are obtained as if vignetted, with the effect of darkening the corners) and an automatic exposure meter, which quite often does not work very accurately. Photos taken with this device are sharper, more saturated and with characteristic darkening at the edges of the picture.

However, the Lomography Community also distributes other models of cameras designed exclusively for lomography.
Among them:

disposable devices with loaded film for 24 shots;

underwater cameras;

four-, eight- and even nine-lens cameras (at the time of shooting, several mini-frames are obtained, asynchronously lying on the photograph. This allows you to capture actions in motion);

cameras with built-in flashes, which provide interchangeable multi-colored filters to highlight the subject in the process of shooting;

panoramic cameras with a viewing angle of 120 and 170 degrees;

cameras with fisheye lenses;

and etc.

Scrap projects

Organizing and holding their numerous photo exhibitions, lomographers, as creative and creatively thinking people, very often hold unusual actions.

For example, collages-lomostens are created and stretched over many meters, which are a collective stream of consciousness. To create such collages, more than one hundred photographic films are snapped off. The lomographic community sends free lomo cameras all over the world, which are intended not only for famous personalities - pop stars, theater, cinema, politicians, athletes, public figures, but also for ordinary people: workers, employees, teachers, educators, etc. From the returned films photographs are printed and collages are created, many of which are exhibited at world-class events. Like, for example, at the world-famous book fair in Frankfurt am Main, where a giant lomosten was created.

You can find out about all the events and lomographic events taking place in dozens of countries on the official website of the Lomographic Community, where news about current or upcoming projects, promotions and exhibitions is published.

When I was preparing this article and looking at lomophotos on the Internet, I couldn’t help feeling that the venerable photographers were right: it’s not the camera that shoots, but the person. A photograph that tells a story can also be taken with a lomo if you know how to look at the world. And vice versa, a big, black and heavy camera with the most frightening lens will only help you look solid and cool, but is unlikely to bring any sense, again, if its owner does not know how to look at the world. I strongly advise you to look in Yandex for pictures by searching for “lomography”, there will be something to think about. in a creative direction.

On the other hand, lomo-style photos can be taken with an inexpensive digital camera. Although it will already be “not according to the rules” (according to the rules, lomography, it’s still a film), but it will help you learn to think creatively and see creatively.

And yet, although this could have been written at the very beginning. Lomography, of course, has nothing to do with the photostock business. Some pictures can be accepted for stocks, but as a curiosity. This industry is turned in a different direction. Lomography can already be called a kind of art. If I had the opportunity, I would try! More and more I find myself doing this. 🙂

LOMO "Instant cameras are represented by several models with large (8 x 10 cm) and small (5 x 9 cm) frame sizes. Both types of cameras work on cassettes and differ from the original Fujifilm products not only and not so much in a pleasant and high-quality design, but how many useful settings for the most demanding photographers and simple lovers of experimental photography.

In Lomo cameras, you can manually set the shutter speed, control exposure, change shooting modes. Also included with cameras are interchangeable lenses and multi-colored gel filters. Thus, shooting on lomo is much more fun and interesting!

The cost of lomo cameras is about twice as high as the cost of seemingly similar Fujifilm Instax cameras. But the amount of money spent generously pays off with wide shooting opportunities and unforgettable photos. Who should pay attention to LOMO: people of creative professions and just creative and creative individuals who are ready to spend a little more than 10 thousand rubles on their passion for photography.

“You don’t know ahead of time what will happen. And after shooting, you don’t know either. ” Lomography is as popular today as ever, thanks to the hipster movement. However, the point is not only in fashion, but also in unusual and colorful pictures, showing which, it is impossible to predict what will happen this time. In this article, we will go through the entire history of the development of lomography and find out how the Soviet LOMO plant changed the lives of millions of people.

So what is lomography? This is a type of film photography, which implies photographing with a violation of sharpness, the plausibility of color reproduction, and the uniformity of frame density. Simply put, it is life captured in its own unique way. This direction of photography appeared thanks to the LOMO-compact, the camera that started it all.

Thirty years ago, Igor Kornitsky, Deputy Minister of Defense Industry, who was with a delegation in the German city of Cologne to exchange industrial experience, fell into the hands of a small Japanese camera Cosina CX-2. Kornitsky, who paid close attention to the Soviet camera industry, handed it over to his friend and director of the LOMO plant in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Panfilov.

First of all, the Japanese camera was thoroughly studied. “Already at this stage,” recalls Mikhail Kholomyansky, the lead designer of the creative team that worked on the creation of the camera, “it became clear that it would not be possible to fully reproduce it. We took the path of creating our own, in many ways original, design. Thus, after numerous transformations, our answer to the Japanese Cosina CX-2, LOMO-Compact-Automatic (LOMO LC-A), was born.

In 1984, mass production of LOMO LC-A began. 1,100 cameras were manufactured per month, and about 1,200 people worked on them. However, soon "Kompakt-Avtomat" "leaked" through the Soviet market to other communist countries: to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba. By the way, since the launch of LOMO LC-A production, approximately 1.5 million of these cameras have been produced.

In 1991, LOMO LC-A became the founder of the worldwide lomovodstvo, having gone from a Prague used camera shop directly into the hands of the students of the Vienna Academy of Arts Matthias Figl and Wolfgang Strantsinger. Having returned from Prague, which had traveled far and wide, to their homeland and having printed the pictures, the friends were amazed at the results of their spontaneous photographic work - the shots turned out to be unexpectedly very creative and original, while retaining sweet memorable moments.

Everyone wanted to get the same amazing camera, so students began to visit Russia quite often in order to purchase LOMO LC-A for friends and relatives.

In 1992, fans of this camera united in the International Lomographic Society, whose headquarters are still located in Vienna.

During the summer, the ten Golden Rules of Lomography below were written, and on November 5, 1992, they were printed in the Vienna Gazette (Wiener Zeitung). Shortly thereafter, the municipal council of the city provided the society with an empty house in the 7th district on Breitegasse (Breitegasse). It was here that the very first lomographic exhibition took place, where 700 LOMO LC-A cameras were sold and one of the most characteristic features of the International Lomographic Society, the lomosten, was born.

In 1994, the LOMO plant planned to stop the production of its photo bestseller due to a drop in demand for domestic photographic equipment, but the first Moscow lomographic exhibition, which was held simultaneously in New York, saved the business. And the Viennese friends did their best: they convinced the factory bosses and the then vice-mayor of the city, Vladimir Putin, of the need to continue production of the LC-A.

Development of photographic equipment for lomography

In 1998, the Lomographic Society introduces the world to a strange plastic ActionSampler camera that captures four consecutive images on film, and it becomes an instant hit. The lenses in it work in turn with an interval of a quarter of a second, that is, the pictures are asynchronously placed on one photo. With a single press of the shutter release button, you can capture a series of four 2×2 mini-frames on one standard film frame, allowing you to capture the action in motion.

In 2000, the SuperSampler appears - a camera with only four panoramic lenses arranged in one line. Due to the fact that they work in turn, a series of photo strips is obtained in the photo.

In 2005, the Fisheye Camera is launched, a small camera equipped with a 180° wide-angle fisheye lens. Now there is also Fisheye-2 - an improved Fisheye camera with an aluminum body and an additional viewfinder.

In general, the release date is not as important as the model itself, so we will list everything that was released.

Frogeye Underwater is a waterproof camera equipped with flash.
Holga is a medium format lomo chamber.
"Horizont-compact" is a convenient panoramic camera that allows you to take pictures with a viewing angle of 120 °.
Horizon Perfect is a panoramic camera with a tripod mount and advanced settings.
Lomolitos Single Use is a disposable camera loaded with 24 frames of film.
Oktomat is a camera with eight lenses that fire in turn.
Pop 9 is a camera with nine mini lenses and a flash that shoots simultaneously.
ActionSampler Flash is a four-lens camera with a four-segment flash.
Colorsplash is a camera with an integrated flash with interchangeable multi-colored (up to 12 colors) light filters for highlighting the subject and the ability to set a slow shutter speed.
Spinner 360° is a camera that won the 2010 European Consumers Choice Awards.
The Sprocket Rocket is the first camera entirely dedicated to film perforation.

It is worth noting that each camera is available in several colors, and many models released specifically for an event (for example, for the Golden Week in Japan) have unique colors - animalistic and others.

Lomography celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2009 by celebrating this significant date with the release of limited edition LC-A+ such as No Nukes, designed by South Korean designers.

The Ten Commandments of the Lomographer

It is these funny rules that are fundamental for every lomography lover.

Always keep your camera with you.
Shoot at any time of the day or night.
Lomography is part of your life.
Shoot from the hip.
Get as close to your subject as possible.
Do not think.
Be fast.
You don't know ahead of time what will happen.
And after shooting, you don’t know either.
Now forget all the rules and shoot.

By the way, lomography is the prototype of Instagram, a mobile photo sharing application in which you can modify pictures using lomo filters. Therefore, if you use such a program, you can confidently consider yourself a lomographer.

In conclusion, it is impossible not to note the speed with which the movement spread throughout the world. Lomographers are no longer just "lazy" amateur photography students from Vienna who lacked the time, desire and opportunity to create classic pictures according to the rules, they are hundreds of thousands of people around the world, united by common interests, this is a subculture of the photo world, which to this day attracts a lot of new supporters, fixing the world as it is - amazing, unusual and sunny in any weather!

Yes, I do not want a soap dish! And I don't need a mirror. All these boring, “licked” photos… I would like a lomograph with Fisheye and filters, then I would!.. But where to look for them?

In fact, anyone can buy a retro camera with some unusual lenses and filters. Where? Abroad. How? Order yourself or through an intermediary. I gave away only a hundred dollars (or even less), got some kind of cool one there and went aimlessly, and took pictures of such a thing ...

Well, let's see what real photography gurus shoot for in the 21st century?

Lomographs La Sardina: take color!

Top - Flash Analogue Camera, bottom - Flash DXL Analogue Camera

The next step is when flash appears on your camera. New horizons and opportunities are already opening up here. But La Sardina does not stop there and offers to complement flash effects with paints: each camera comes with 4 color filters. By the way, what do you like more:, or, in which the grandmother keeps family jewelry?

Diana: Lomographs of the 60s

Left to right: Diana Dreamer, Diana F Zebra, Diana F Neptune

More unusual lomographs? Ok, let's look at the next brand. Diana releases, exclusive crazy 60s style lomo cameras. Guest #1 from the past - . How is it different from others? You can take endless panoramic shots, adjust the shutter and aperture, plus a removable lens. Film - 120 mm.

Kill everyone on the spot with a bright design? Take (film - 120mm). She also knows how to take wide-angle shots. For a bright life, she always has color filters with her. She loves to experiment with exposure and shout loudly that her owner is not a bore. If Zebra is too bright for you, a model with the same abilities, but in a different color - .

Diana Gold and Diana Novella

For 120 mm, Diana also has another guest from the 60s: the camera. She is renowned for her penchant for atmospheric images with glow effects, noises, and other romantic wear. Luxurious - an analogue of the Novella, but with a flash. Both are capable of producing panoramic shots and increase the attractiveness of their owner by 70%.

Lomography Diana F+ Flash Mini Camera

And finally, the line Diana Mini: miniature lomo chambers , and . 35 mm, flash, but the main highlight is that whole frames can be turned into halves, combining pieces from different scenes in one picture. Photo vinaigrette provided! The leopard also comes with a set of color filters.

Fisheye: dynamic depth of field

Lomography Fisheye 2 and Lomography Gold Fisheye 2

fisheye effect(fisheye) without hesitation can be called the best way to turn an ordinary photo into something special. A fisheye can add carousel dynamics to even the most flat and static shot. One can only guess how real fish look at this world. But while we are not fish, it is better to buy a lomograph with additional lenses or even a lens. A couple of stylish options - pastel blue and glamorous. 180-degree view, 35mm film, built-in flash and hot shoe - the best set for a party!

What if a masterpiece doesn't work? It doesn't happen

Someone will say that you can never take a normal photo on a lomograph. But what is this norm? What do you need from super-clear shots where everyone is standing at attention and smiling forcedly? No emotions, no memories, longing. It's time to breathe life into photography! Add noise, glare and scuffs (hello Instagram!), make the pictures crawl on top of each other, use unusual effects. One word... Lomography! Here's what you need.

The megapixel race seems to have come to a standstill a long time ago, but it is clear that it will not end soon. There are more and more digital cameras, and people are increasingly looking for something else - something that, with a guarantee, would get rid of:

Imposed prejudices associated with the evaluation of image quality. An interesting photo does not always have to be clear, have high detail and correct color reproduction!
Spending significant amounts to pay for these prejudices.
An electronic library of monotonous digital images that are unlikely to ever be printed on paper.

Unlike a digital SLR, lomo cameras are more of a creative tool. They are cheap, easy to set up and use, and reliable. And most importantly, they give the owner the unique charm of the "sacrament", inherent only in traditional photography (you never know in advance what will happen in the end).

A man armed with a lomo camera, with his very appearance, challenges other people's stereotypes. He does not have to think about how successful the results will be, but should always be ready to take a picture.

The lomo chamber becomes a wardrobe item, but is not always obedient to the will of its owner. It is not designed for playing with composition and exposure, but it involves shooting quickly from the hip: quantity breeds quality. Frames are fixed on film - standard 35 mm or wide (type 120).

Holga 120N

"Holga" is a cheap medium format "soap box", invented in 1982 in Hong Kong and is a simple device with a lens made of plastic lenses, without a built-in flash. The name in the original version sounded Ho Gwong (“very bright”) - it characterizes one of the main properties of the resulting image. "Toy" "Holga" can not be considered in any way, although formally it belongs to the number of toy cameras. There are many amazing professional photos taken with the Holga. This camera has a "special look" at the usual things. It is precisely the “imperfection” of the picture that is valuable in it, which in skillful hands turns into an artist’s brush: unnaturally juicy shades, low detail, movement, dark corners.

The first Holga 120S model - with plastic optics, a shoe for an external flash, a frame format of 6 x 4.5 cm. It was replaced by the 120N version - it features support for two formats (6 x 4.5; 6 x 6), slightly modernized optics (also plastic), the presence of exposure Bulb.

In addition, you can find on sale a Holga version with a built-in flash with four color filters (120FN), as well as modifications with a glass lens (Holga 120GN), glass lens and flash (120GCFN). And even without a lens at all, instead of which there is a tiny hole - "Pinholga". All new Holgas have the ability to shoot square frames (6 x 6), but the vignetting in this format is higher than with 6 x 4.5. New versions of the Holga with glass lenses and a flash are almost the same price as simpler options. But photographers prefer the simplest "Holgi" - the point here is not at all the price.

Since the 120N model is equipped with an external flash shoe, it makes sense to pay attention to this particular Holga model. The plastic lens has a focal length of 60 mm and allows you to receive objects that are 1 m or more in the field of sharpness. The aperture has only two settings - "sunny" and "cloudy".

LOMO Compact Automat

The first Soviet automatic "soap box" developed at the Leningrad Optical and Mechanical Association (LOMO), which was released in 1984 and gave its name to the lomography genre. In 1981, the Minister of Defense Industry of the USSR Igor Kornitsky was presented with a Japanese compact camera Cosina CX-2 at the international exhibition of film and photo equipment in Cologne. The minister liked the camera very much, and he set the task of creating such a device in the USSR.

The Cosina camera was taken as the basis, which Soviet engineers carefully studied over the course of two years of work on the Soviet counterpart. Work under the leadership of Mikhail Kholomyansky culminated in the launch of the LC-A in 1983.

The first batch, issued in a small edition, was presented to the delegates of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU. The camera soon became a mainstream success. The production of LOMO Compact at the LOMO plant was repeatedly resumed, but the camera received well-deserved worldwide recognition only in the mid-1990s.

These days, the LC-A is more of a cult item than a technical tool. In good condition (there is nothing to break), the device can be purchased at a commission shop - as a rule, the price does not exceed 2.5 thousand rubles.

By modern standards, the LC-A case is a bit too big for a "soap dish", but it fits easily into a pocket - the weight is 250 g and the dimensions are 107 x 68 x 43.5 mm. The Minitar-1 lens has a focal length of 32 mm at f/2.8 aperture. It is protected by a curtain that moves with a lever. Shutter cuts shutter speeds from 1/500 to 2 seconds.

Wide-angle optics provide not only the relative versatility of the camera, but also reduces the time spent on focusing. The owner of the LC-A only needs to select one of four values on the distance scale: 0.8, 1.5 or 3 m, infinity. Focusing is thus done by eye. There is an optical viewfinder for composing the shot, although real lomographs do without it.

The LC-A has two modes - auto and aperture priority (A). The film speed value is entered manually. The exposure metering system allows you to use both modes under any lighting conditions.

The lens is quite high-quality, provides interesting color reproduction (with bright, saturated shades), but has a strong vignetting effect (darkening at the corners of the frame), thanks to which the photos taken by LC-A are easy to distinguish from others.

The camera is not afraid of severe frost (-15) and, as they say, even falling from the third floor - in general, very, very reliable. In all moments, except for the image quality. It is unpredictable, and this is the main charm of LOMO. Create an artistic effect: barrel distortion, stir effect, darkened edges, beautiful background blur.

"Amateur-166B"

Domestic "Amateur" - the most affordable camera with a frame format of 6 x 6 cm. This TLR camera is an improved clone of the old German twin-lens camera Voigatlander Brilliant.

Two modifications of the “Amateur” are common - 166B (with a frame of 6 x 6 cm) and 166U (“universal” - format 6 x 6 cm or 6 x 4.5 cm when using the included frame). Less common are earlier versions ("Amateur", "Amateur-2"). With an equal cost for a used camera (about 500 rubles), it makes sense to dwell on one of the simplest modifications - 166B.

The T22 is a three-lens shooting lens with an aperture of f/4.5 and a central shutter that cuts off the maximum shutter speed of 1/250 sec. At wide apertures, the lens is well suited for portrait photography, as the image it produces is very soft, with low detail. In terms of color reproduction, the latest versions of the “Amateur” are especially good, the lens of which has multilayer coating: bright and saturated colors delight.

"Amateur" is great for creative experiments like shooting with frame-to-frame overlay or, for example, using slide film with cross-process development. Now about the difficulties associated with shooting on "Amateur". The first of these is considered to be increased light scattering, which occurs due to poor blackening of the insides of the camera. Additional blackening completely eliminates this problem - but for the most part, the problem itself is far-fetched. The drop in contrast in the old "Amateurs" in many cases is a plus for the image.

Low sharpness at open apertures is also not a disadvantage, although it limits the possibility of using the camera in some scenes. This feature of the "Amateur" is often used to get a "soft" picture when shooting portraits.

At smaller apertures (f/16, f/22), the three-element lens delivers significantly better detail, so the camera can be used effectively for shooting landscapes from a tripod. Especially if you load slide film into it. There is also a blackout at the corners of the frame, but to a much lesser extent than in Holga.

The only serious problem when shooting on the "Amateur" is the accuracy of the focus. Focusing is done not by moving the front panel (as with most TLR cameras), but by rotating a gear on the rim of one of the lenses. This way of focusing is inconvenient, but you can get used to it. Worse things are with the control of focus accuracy.

As with other TLR cameras, the second (upper) lens is used for sighting. But the image falls not on frosted glass, but on a collective lens with a frosted circle in the center. It is supposed to focus on the circle, raising the magnifying glass for precise focusing. Using a lens instead of a circle made it possible to increase the brightness of the image in the mine viewfinder, but it is extremely difficult to accurately focus. The "amateur" in any of the modifications is actually a scale camera: the viewfinder can be used for framing, but not for precise focusing.

In most "Amateurs" (except for the rare "Olympic" version), film rewinding is carried out only with visual control of the frame numbers on the reverse side of the lead - through the red window. If you don’t work out a rewind system for yourself (“I shot it - I rewound it” or “I want to shoot it - I rewound it”), there are great chances to get an involuntary overlay of frames as a result.

LOMO Fisheye Camera

Based on the LC-A, but instead of just a wide-angle lens, this camera is equipped with a rare fisheye lens. The image obtained with its help is a circle covering an angle of 170 degrees.

The camera is available in two versions: the first one has a plastic body, and the other - Fisheye 2 - is distinguished by the best workmanship (aluminum body), a 180-degree coverage angle, and a built-in flash. Distributed by the lomographic community.

Lomo cameras with continuous shooting

A separate class of lomo cameras is cheap plastic "soap dishes" that shoot on 35 mm film and have several instead of one lens, which makes it possible to place several shots on one standard frame. In terms of image quality, such options are significantly inferior even to other lomo cameras, not to mention serious 35mm cameras. And it's not just that four or eight tiny plastic lenses are worse than one. The format of the frame itself plays a significant role ...

Models differ primarily in the number of lenses. For example, the Action Sampler camera has four lenses and allows you to shoot a series of four frames in a 2 x 2 pattern. There are options with a built-in flash (Action Sampler Flash) or with four panoramic lenses arranged in a row (Super Sampler).

On the website of the Lomographic Society, there are options that have a larger number of lenses: Oktomat and Pop 9. The first on a standard frame of 35 mm film fits a series of 8 mini-frames, the second - 9 mini-frames, and all lenses in this model fire synchronously.

"Horizon-202"

The Soviet photographic industry has produced many interesting cameras, which Western lomographers enthusiastically shoot with. Not only the brainchild of the LOMO plant comes to mind, but also various models of FEDs, Zorkihs, and Kievs.

The only model that is being produced now and is actively sold on Western sites is the panoramic camera "Horizon" - the brainchild of the Krasnogorsk plant named after. Zverev, known to every Russian citizen thanks to Zenit SLR cameras.

"Horizon" is a panoramic camera that allows you to take pictures on 35 mm film, the frame format is 24 x 58 mm. On standard film, it turns out to shoot 22 frames. The composition of the frame is built using a wide-angle viewfinder, the image in which corresponds in terms of angle of view to the final picture.

The camera provides high-quality results without the characteristic distortions of wide-angle optics. This is due to the unusual design of the lens: during shooting, it rotates. A feature of the camera is the need to ensure a strictly horizontal position during shooting. Otherwise, severe perspective distortions are possible. To control the horizontal in the viewfinder there is a bubble level.

"Horizon" - completely mechanical camera, works without batteries. Film rewinding and shutter cocking are carried out using the trigger.

Model 202 is the main one in the Horizons line. This is a fairly large camera (117.5 x 146 x 73 mm, 700 g), equipped with a quality lens that is a pleasant surprise when shooting on color film. The model is affordable and has an MS-coated lens that provides a 120-degree field of view. Unlike the simplified versions of the "Horizon", which are offered on the website of the Lomographic Society, this model has a wide range of shutter speeds: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 sec. This is its important advantage, since the simplified versions of Horizon Compact and Horizon Perfect are not much more compact, but are noticeably inferior in terms of shooting capabilities. The shutter curtains on the Horizon Perfect model are specially curved, which guarantees unpredictable shooting results.