The Neva-2 is a double 8 cine camera designed and built by the LOMO factory in St. Petersburg around 1962.

The Neva-2 has a selectable frame rates, at 8 fps, 16 fps, 24 fps, and 48 fps, although the faster the frame rate the louder the camera is, as it runs completely on clockwork, although other than the noise this brings one advantage over a motorised cine camera there is no need for batteries, just turn a dial on the side, and away you go. When fully wound it will run for just over a minute at 48fps, which is pretty impressive really, as it’s equates to about two thirds of a reel of double 8 film in a single long shot.

It has a turret lens mount, meaning that lenses can be changed rapidly, just press a button on the front of the turret, and it springs forward, then you simply rotate it to the lens you want and push it back in.

The LOMO LC-A is a 35mm compact automatic camera manufactured in St. Petersburg from the early 1980s up until production ceased in 2005, to take a well exposed picture all you need to do is press the shutter release and wait for the camera to click twice, the images it takes have a certain dreamlike quality to them, thanks in part to the long shutter times it uses when light levels are low, it can produce extremely long exposures if there is very little light, and it responds instantly to changing light conditions, making it amazing in nightclubs where strobe lights produce spectacular effects.

The lens also contributes to the dreamlike quality of the images produced by the LOMO Kompakt Automat, the lens is a 32mm “Minitar 1″ f/2.8 lens which produces spectacularly colourful and highly saturated images and is a true gem of the lens designers craft.