Lomo
LOMO (until 1965 GOMZ, then LOOMP) is the abbreviation for Leningradskoje optiko-mechanitscheskoje obedinenije (Ленинградское оптико-механическое объединение). The company was founded in Saint Petersburg in 1914 ; the city was called Leningrad during the Soviet Union, which is where the "L" in today's company name comes from.
history
Various optical devices were developed for the Russian army by 1917. In 1930 the first Soviet photo camera was made. The first film camera followed in 1933 . A LOMO camera that was particularly common in the GDR was the Smena in various versions.
One of LOMO's products, the 35mm camera LC-A ( Lomo LC-A ), was developed in 1983 as a copy of a model by the Japanese OEM manufacturer Cosina and was manufactured in St. Petersburg until production was relocated to China in 2005. The Lubitel medium format camera and the large format cameras once produced by GOMZ also always enjoyed great attention.
Core business
The actual core business of the LOMO company is high-quality laboratory microscopes and microscope optics, which were marketed under the name "Biolam" and which initially were essentially replicas of Zeiss microscopes. LOMO also manufactures astronomical telescopes and components for them - the product range here ranges from small amateur telescopes to mirror optics for large professional telescopes.
