Belomo

MMZ (Minsk Mechanical Factory) was founded in 1957. It started making optical glass and producing cameras that were developed by GOMZ. In 1971 it became BelOMO (Belorussian Optical and Mechanical Association). It was based in Minsk, the capital of the former Soviet republic Belarus. Its unique camera product was the Chaika half-frame camera. In 1995 Zeiss and BelOMO founded the joint venture Zeiss-BelOMO, a lens production site.

Cameras

image by Paul Analog (Image rights)

• Agat 18
• Agat 18K
• Chaika series
• Elikon 2
• Elikon 4
• Elikon 35C
• Elikon 35CM
• Elikon 353
• Elikon Automat
• Elikon Autofocus (but in Cyrillic) (Clone of the Konica C35AF)
• Estafeta
• Etude
• Lomo LK-A
• Orion EE
• Siluet Elektro
• Shkolnik
• Smena
• Smena-2
• Vilia
• Vilia-Auto

8mm Fisheye lens for 35mm SLR image by pointnshoot (Image rights)

Lenses

• MC Peleng 3.5/8 Fisheye
• EWP Fisheye Lens 3.5/8
• MS 2.8/17

Links

• Belomo Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr
• Vilia on rus-camera.com (with links to other Belomo cameras)
• cxompany homepage and Zeiss-BelOMO joint venture