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Lomo LC-A+

The Lomo LC-A+ is the successor to the original Soviet Lomo LC-A camera. It is a fixed-lens, compact 35mm camera that uses zone focusing and auto-exposure. When Lomography helped design the LC-A+ they also included an accessory slot around the lens for attaching various filter accessories, a threaded socket for cable releases, and an expanded ISO range up to 1600.

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The Lomo LC-A+ and Related History

This is a Lomography LC-A+ camera, but this story is mostly about the LC-A, the camera that the LC-A+ updated.⁠

⁠If you are a fan of rabbit holes, as so many of us internet-goers are, read through the history of the LC-A. You cannot get it's story all in one place, for it meanders, and different tellers paint the picture with different brushes. You could start with Soviet General Igor Petrowitsch Kornitzky (a name that virtually doesn't exist outside the Lomosphere histories) plunking a Japanese Cosina CX-2 onto the desk of Mikhail Panfilov, who himself had brought several Soviet industries together to form LOMO (translates to Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association), and encouraging his Soviet engineers to produce a replica that would become the LC-A.⁠

⁠From there, you could rewind time to 1914, immerse yourself in the history of a company founded in Petrograd and making gun sights for the Russian war effort (this was eight years before the treaty that would create the Soviet Union following the Russian Revolution). They'd resume camera production after the war, making such curiosities as the FOTOKOR and VOOMP - they loved their acronyms, don't we all.⁠

⁠Or you could also leap forward in time, to two Austrian students, Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger, in a Czechoslovakian flea market in May of 1991 (less than two years before that country would be dissolved into the Czech and Slovak Republics). They'd discover an LC-A and with it, would launch an analog movement, or cult or religion - however you wish to call it.⁠

⁠This is just a brief winding path through the story around this camera. As we said, there's a rabbit hole here. Be careful not to trip and fall in... or, brace yourself and jump with both feet.⁠

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