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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
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Yuri Boguslavsky
fedka
USA
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 Posted - Jul 31 2019 : 8:43:51 PM
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Vlad, I don't recall - did they even make 166B Olympic? I mostly saw 166 with Olympic logo.
I also doubt that the box is original. My first thought was that someone desperately wanted 166B Olympic and just put it together, with a 166 box and a self-made sticker.
On the other hand, this could be a factory experiment, in which case this is a super rare one of a kind Lubitel. Statistically, of course, the odds are not that great, with huge quantities made.
Either way - enjoy!
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
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Posted - Jul 31 2019 : 11:12:20 PM
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Change of 70ies to 80ies. Finland is watching very carefully what is going on with the eastern Bear. Our king-like (since 1956!) President Kekkonen is ill, and the time for a political crisis could mean catastrophy. Luckily all goes well, but our eyes were all focused to east!
USSR (or shorter SU)is preparing for the Olympics. We have to get it right. We know West is laughing at out shortages in shops, so the shops must have everything for the whole time. Cameras, we sell the well. But our spy in UK, TOE, is telling that capitalists no longer want TLR. Neither FED, Zorki nor Kiev. Smena for those who like simple cheap cameras. Also Zenit still goes, but lenses, we have to buy those from Japan and rebrand as Helios. And even DDR-Praktica has had TTL-metering & auto-aperture for years! But western tourists is not all that comes, even FSU-tourists do attend, making it even harder to guess what is needed.
So, how many Lubis are needed? Maybe someone predicted a bit too low quantity. So the order came to Lomo to send more. But they had none... Except some 166-boxes and 166B-cameras. So, lets put a badge on those cameras, and don't care about the box.
Remember, these items are export versions, for tourists, and this camera is a late one for the games as 1981. BTW a bit of same thing happened with Mishka the mascot bear. There is a terrible amount of versions from it, all official ones. But it is very hard to find other than a couple of basic versions. And it was only a couple of years back that one NOS-lot was found in Estonia: they exist even in old forgotten warehouses, not only in peoples homes :)
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
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Posted - Aug 01 2019 : 6:11:06 PM
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Hahaha Juhani, I can totally picture it  .. Well according to Aidas who had went through LOMO archives and talked to people in charge of export there is no mention of such export version.. but you are right, it's Soviet Union.. you never know ... . Very skeptical but hopeful
Yuri, no they did not make 166B Olympic as far as I know, this is a strange one, I will keep it on my shelf with a big question mark and maybe if there is another one found like it then we will consider it a series.
Thanks!
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Olympic Export Lubitel 166B or is it?
