I haven’t had much luck so far with the Russian made Smena camera. In my last attempt, the Smena 8M busted on me whilst rewinding the film, so I decided to try the more modern looking, and later produced, Smena
Some photos from the Smena 35 camera


I haven’t had much luck so far with the Russian made Smena camera. In my last attempt, the Smena 8M busted on me whilst rewinding the film, so I decided to try the more modern looking, and later produced, Smena

I previously wrote about loading film into my Smena 8M camera in this post. I even took the camera to Gumeracha to finish off a roll of Fuji film. Well, I’ve finally had my first roll processed and scanned by

This is what Camerapedia says about the Smena 8M: “The LOMO Smena 8m is an entry-level camera from the 1970s Soviet Union, now mostly regarded as a toy camera. It is an extremely low-tech, fully manual, no-frills plastic box capable