C41
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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The LOMO Smena 32 (1985) is a plastic-bodied 35mm compact made at LOMO (Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association). It belongs to the Smena family, one of the longest-running and highest-volume camera lines in Soviet photographic history. The Smena 32 uses a **T-43 43mm f/4 triplet lens** (the same optical formula that ran through the Smena 8M and Symbol), a zone-focus system with pictographic symbols (portrait, group, landscape), a manual leaf shutter with speeds from approximately 1/15s to 1/250s plus B, and fully manual exposure set via aperture and shutter rings. No battery required; no meter. The body is lightweight injection-moulded plastic, a departure from the heavier Bakelite of earlier Smenas.
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C41
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
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Kodak Gold 200 is a daylight-balanced C-41 color negative film with warm color, moderate grain, and a classic consumer-film look.
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Kodak UltraMax 400 is a versatile consumer-grade ISO 400 daylight-balanced color negative film with T-grain emulsion, delivering warm Kodak colors, fine-for-speed grain (PGI 46), and wide exposure latitude. Currently in production and available globally as a single-roll and multi-pack.
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About this camera
Late-era plastic Smena — the final chapter of the USSR's longest-running 35mm compact line.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Lens | T-43 43mm f/4 triplet (fixed) |
| Focus | Zone focus, pictographic symbols |
| Years | 1985 - ~ |
| Shutter | ~1/15s - 1/250s + B, leaf |
| Flash sync | ~ |
| Meter | None |
| Modes | Manual (aperture + shutter) |
| Battery | None |
The Smena line began in the early 1950s as LOMO's entry-level 35mm offering. The Smena 8M (1970) became the production standard and remained one of the cheapest mass-market cameras in the world for two decades. By the mid-1980s the Soviet camera industry was investing in plastic-body tooling to reduce production cost and weight. The Smena 32 was part of this late-Soviet modernisation effort, replacing the heavier Bakelite construction of the 8M with polystyrene or ABS plastic while retaining the T-43 lens and the fundamentally unchanged zone-focus manual-exposure design. Production continued into the early 1990s; the dissolution of the Soviet Union and LOMO's subsequent focus on the LC-A effectively ended the Smena programme.
The Smena 32 sits at the budget end of the manual compact market. Its T-43 lens, a Soviet-designed triplet, produces results comparable to the Smena 8M: adequate sharpness at f/8 and smaller, characteristic softness wide open, with a rendering quality that some describe as "Lomographic" — a loose term for the saturated, vignetted, contrast-shifted look associated with cheap Soviet optics on slide film. Unlike the LC-A (which made LOMO internationally famous in the 1990s), the Smena 32 has no automatic exposure and no zone-find mechanism — everything is set by hand. This makes it unsuitable for casual snapshooters but appealing to photographers who want full manual control in a very small, light, and cheap package.
C41
Kodak ColorPlus 200 is an affordable, consumer-oriented daylight-balanced color negative film at ISO 200. Known for warm, slightly muted color rendition, fine grain, and wide exposure latitude, it is currently in production and widely available in Asia and select global markets.
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Kodak Tri-X 400 is a classic black-and-white film known for strong tonality, visible grain, and documentary character.
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