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 Vilia is a 35mm scale-focus compact camera produced by LOMO (Leningradskoye Optiko-Mekhanicheskoye Obyedineniye) in Leningrad from 1973. It is an all-plastic bodied camera with a fixed T-43 40mm f/4 triplet lens, a zone-focus system using pictographic symbols for subject distance, and a simple leaf shutter with a limited speed range. There is no meter; exposure is set manually using the sunny-16 rule or a separate meter, and the aperture and shutter are set via rings on the lens barrel. The Vilia was produced as a consumer-grade camera for the Soviet domestic market, positioned below the Smena series in price and complexity but sharing the same essential T-43 lens formula. It is among the lightest and simplest Soviet cameras and sees contemporary use among photographers interested in zone-focus plastic cameras.
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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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LOMO's all-plastic scale-focus 35mm compact with the T-43 triplet - Soviet simplicity at its most distilled.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm |
| Lens | T-43 40mm f/4 triplet, fixed |
| Mount | Fixed (non-interchangeable) |
| Years | 1973 - ~1990 |
| Shutter | Leaf shutter, ~1/60s max + B |
| Flash sync | ~1/60s |
| Meter | None |
| Modes | Manual (aperture + shutter on lens) |
| Battery | None required |
| Focus | Scale/zone focus |
| Weight | ~250 g |
LOMO's camera division produced a succession of simple fixed-lens 35mm cameras through the Soviet era, most famously the Smena series. The Vilia emerged in 1973 as a related design intended for the entry-level domestic market - a camera requiring no electronics, no battery, and no focusing skill beyond estimating distance in broad zones. The T-43 40mm f/4 triplet lens was a proven formula already used across the Smena line; the Vilia adopted it in a new plastic body with a slightly different control layout.
The Vilia Auto variant added a basic automatic exposure mode; the base Vilia remained fully manual. Production continued through the 1970s and 1980s; LOMO shifted camera production priorities in the late Soviet era and the Vilia line ended around 1990. The LOMO LC-A, introduced in 1984, drew international attention to the LOMO brand through the lomography movement of the 1990s, but the Vilia remained largely outside that cultural spotlight.
The Vilia's significance is primarily practical and historical. Practically, the T-43 triplet lens - when stopped down to f/8 or f/11 - produces surprisingly sharp images across the center of the frame, with characteristic softness and vignetting toward the edges that many photographers find appealing. The all-plastic construction and zone focus make it a genuinely pocketable, low-stakes camera that can be used in conditions where a more expensive camera would be a risk.
Historically, the Vilia represents the consumer floor of Soviet photographic manufacturing: a camera designed to be cheap, durable in the sense of having few moving parts to fail, and simple enough that no instruction manual was strictly necessary. It was never prestigious and was not the kind of camera Soviet photojournalists or serious amateurs chose. Its current value is as a working example of Soviet mass-market industrial design in plastics.
Lens: Fixed T-43 40mm f/4 triplet. Non-interchangeable. Aperture ring on the lens barrel offers stops from f/4 to f/16 (exact range varies by production run ). The T-43 formula shares its optical heritage with the lens used in Smena-8M and related cameras:
Standard 40.5mm or 49mm filters may thread on depending on the specific barrel variant . Flash via hot shoe or sync socket if equipped; accessory cold shoe only on some variants.
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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