The final confirmation: Smena-18 does exist!
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Topic author: AidasCams
Posted on: 20090914082121
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Reply author: cedricfan
Replied on: 20090914140454
Congratulations my friend! So this myth is busted: it does exist and it is a LOMO like the low quality scans so far have shown. Also proof that last pieces of many puzzles still show up with time and patience :)
Best regards,
Juhani
Reply author: Vlad
Replied on: 20090914164025
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BRAVO!! WOW! This is an amazing discovery! This creates another mystery: what came first - LC-A or Smena-18? Was Smena-18 created when LOMO was having difficulties making LC-A from Cosina or was this created as a cheaper alternative to LC-A with all-manual operation?
Great, great, great find Aidas, this really made my day this morning..
Cheers,
Vlad
Reply author: AidasCams
Replied on: 20090915010923
To Juhani,
Thanks a lot! Still a lot of puzzles about Smena numbers indeed ... [:)] Who can tell us more about Smena-15, Smena-16 and Smena-17? And were is Smena-10 right now? [:D][:D][:D]
To Vlad,
Thanks a lot! Your both versions are possible, but cheap alternative sounds better for myself ... [:)]
Best Regards,
Aidas
Reply author: RCCCUK
Replied on: 20090915025204
Hi Aidas,
There are few things more exiting to a camera collector than the discovery of an unseen model. Many thanks for sharing this with us. We are now all searching for a Smena-18 to add to our collections.
David
(http://www.rcccuk.com)
Reply author: mermoz37
Replied on: 20090915034907
Aidas : very efficient hunter ! congratulations [;)]
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20090915092546
I knew about existance of this camera. It was created immediatly after LOMO Kompakt and was a proposed cheaper alternative. It was announced at Sovetskoe Foto and in the Technointorg Bolletin. It has the same body and shutter, no more battery operated but the single dial operates the speed and aperture concomitantly.
Unhappyly, the production was voided due the "much more status" of the LOMO LCA. Note: the original plastic shoe cover was black. the red ones only came in 1990.
LP
Reply author: AidasCams
Replied on: 20090916155445
Hi,
although Alain is calling me as a stony-faced hunter [:D][:D][:D] for soviet rarities again, the most important thing for me is to know the whole story about Smena evolution c. 1952... The fortune was friendly to me this time, thoug I don't care which collector of us do possess a particular camera indeed ... [:)]
The most important thing for me is, that many very serious camera collectors like Alain, Viktor, Juhani, David, Alexey and Vlad, etc... like to collect these cheap, but pretty cameras, ...[:)] that's great![:)]
Best Regards,
Aidas
Reply author: nightphoto
Replied on: 20090917182305
Congratulations Aidas!
A very nice camera to find. Very nice that it came to you as your web site is the best!
Regards, Bill
Reply author: mermoz37
Replied on: 20090918033546
hi ""stony face hunter""....[:D]
if you see another example of such camera in the future .....please tell us...mau be you will attend a hard entertainment on the forum [:o)]
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo
Replied on: 20090920005051
Aidas
Of course this extra rare camera deserves a place in our wiki catalogue.
Regards
LP
Reply author: AidasCams
Replied on: 20090922085539
To Bill, Alain, David and Luiz,
Thank you for your kind words! I have had a chance to buy NEVA just few days ago, but it was soooooooooooo expensive and ... I said NO unfortunately [:)]
Best Regards,
Aidas
Reply author: Jacques M.
Replied on: 20090922092613
Hi Aidas!
I am far from being a specialist of Lomos or Smenas.
But I know what excitement we can feel to discover something new, especially when it is a piece of a puzzle.
So, happy for you and congratulations! [:)]
Amitiés. Jacques.
Reply author: Detlev
Replied on: 20091010064440
Reply author: Vlad
Replied on: 20091010102358
Hi Detlev,
yes Smena-19 is not very rare, it's uncommon but you can probably always find one or two listed on Molotok...
Cheers,
Vlad
Reply author: AidasCams
Replied on: 20091010114539
hi Detlev,
thanks a lot for your help! I'm proud owner of 2 beautiful Smena-19 cameras already and I'm looking for 3 more versions right now ...[:)]
Best Regards,
Aidas
Reply author: cedricfan
Replied on: 20091011023653
I have only two versions so far [:I]
Best regards,
Juhani
