I Photographed Union Square On a 70-Year-Old Soviet Analog Film Camera

Using the Lubitel TLR

Thomas Smith
The Canister
Published in
4 min readFeb 28, 2024

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As a professional photographer, I’m always trying to push the boundaries of my skills and try new things that produce interesting photos.

That’s why in 2018, I headed to San Francisco’s Union Square with a peculiar camera, a Lubitel 166 LOMO twin-lens reflex (TLR) box camera dating…

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