WHAT’S A LOMO?
From the Lomographic Society’s web site, http://www.lomography.com: “The LOMO is a technically astonishing, gorgeous little Russian compact camera. It comes from St. Petersburg and is the only one to use Professor Radionov’s extra-special and totally sexy lens. It is the close-up/long range/ night vision and ever-watchful glass eye from Russia with THE RELENTLESS WINK. It is your constant friend and helper, a trusty companion in all situations and for all walks of life, with precisely those qualities required to make every day more exciting and varied and, in doing this, the mundane more bearable, simpler. ” There is some confusion on the net regarding the name LOMO. LOMO is the manufacturer of the LC-A camera. They also make several manual 35mm cameras called SMENAs and put their name on several plastic novelty cameras, like the Cybersampler, SuperSampler, and LOMO 9. The Lomographic Society (http://www.lomoraphy.com) refers to the camera as a LOMO in several places. Many people on th
