Lomo

LOMO ( until 1965 GOMZ, then loomp ), is an abbreviation for Leningradskoje optiko - mechanitscheskoje obedinenije ( Ленинградское оптико - механическое объединение ). 1914, the company was founded in St. Petersburg; the city was during the Soviet Union Leningrad, where also the "L " comes in today's company name.

By 1917, a variety of optical devices have been developed for the Russian army. In 1930 the first Soviet camera was manufactured. 1933 followed by the first film camera. A frequently encountered especially in the GDR LOMO camera was Smena in different versions.

One of the products of LOMO, the miniature camera LC -A ( Lomo LC -A), was developed in 1983 as a copy of the Japanese OEM manufacturer Cosina a model and manufactured to the relocation of production to China in 2005 in St. Petersburg. The Lubitel medium format camera and the large-format cameras once manufactured by GOMZ always enjoyed great attention.

The core business of the company LOMO are high quality laboratory microscopes and microscope optics, which came under the name " Biolam " in the trade and initially constituted essentially replicas of Zeiss microscopes. In addition, LOMO astronomical telescopes and components for this come from - the product palette ranges from small amateur telescopes to mirror optics for large professional telescopes.