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(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov: Leningrad 80s >> ART>>
Reconstructing E-E KOZLOV's photo archive from the 1980s
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Chapter 2. The LOMO 135 VS • ЛОМО 135 ВС The label LOMO is an abbreviation of Ленинградское оптико-механическое объединение (Leningradskoye Optiko-Mekhanicheskoye Obyedinenie, Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association). The company itself was founded in 1914, and the label LOMO appeared only in 1962, following some other names. Today, the Saint Petersburg LOMO PLC produces and exports high technology optical and other products, while in the West, LOMO is best known through “Lomography”, a creative trend of taking pictures with cheap (toy) cameras to achieve unpredictable results.
The LOMO 135 VS was produced between 1975 and 1982 with a nonexchangeable Industar 73 40mm f/2.8 lens. Kozlov’s camera is from 1978, since the production number of the lens is 7803975 (again, the first two digits refer to the year of production). The lens is generally said to be one of the assets of the Lomo 135 VS, which was exported under the brand name Cosmic 135 MS.
The camera is quite unique in that it has a spring motor film advance. The spring is inside the take-up spool, with the motor winding knob on top. When completely wound up (like the spring of a clock or a wind-up toy), eight pictures can be shot in a row without rewinding the knob, at a speed of 3 shots per second. I couldn’t test it, because unfortunately, in Kozlov’s camera, the spring works properly only with the first exposure, and then you have to fully rewind the knob. Because the Lomo 135 adopted the design of a Rollei C35, which has the take-up spool on the left side of the camera when looking at it from the back, the film must be loaded upside-down, from right to left.
Like the Rollei, the Lomo has the hot shoe for the flash at the base, which means you have to turn it upside down when taking pictures with a flash to avoid creating a shadow. The shutter speed range is different from that of the FED-2, with values of 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125 and 1/250 (the FED-2 goes up1/500 s), but it does have a bulb mode. With respect to the FED-2, it has some other shortcomings: no rangefinder and no portable case.
The question of how often Evgenij Kozlov used the Lomo instead of the FED-2 is not of primary importance for the scope of the present work. But it is nevertheless interesting, and I will return to it from time to time. Actually, the only pictures I’ve seen with the artist holding a camera shows him with another camera, possibly a Zenit – at any rate, it is neither a FED-2 nor a LOMO 135 VS. Hans Kumpf took these pictures during a jam session with Sergey Kuryokhin and his friends in August 1983 more >>. If it was a Zenit, then we may assume that Kozov was shooting with Ivan Sotnikov’s Zenit camera, because no pictures of this jam session are in Kozlov’s photo archive, but several are in Ivan Sotnikov’s archive and they show Ivan Sotnikov himself.
© Hannelore Fobo / text / pictures / lay-out © (E-E) Evgenij Kozlov / artwork Uploaded 3 May 2021 |
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