About the product.
The BelOMO Vilia is Soviet camera design at its most honest — built in Minsk between 1973 and 1986, around two million of them, sold for 23 roubles. There is no meter and no rangefinder. You set the aperture by picking a weather symbol, guess the distance using pictograms on the focus ring, and shoot. It is the cheapest possible route into fully manual 35mm, and the Triplet-69-3 lens gives a soft-cornered, slightly swirly look that people now pay a lot more to imitate.
Specifications
- Format: 35mm, 24x36mm frames
- Lens: Triplet-69-3 40mm f/4, coated, 3 elements in 3 groups
- Focusing: Zone / scale focus by front-cell rotation, 0.8m to infinity, with pictogram and depth-of-field scales
- Shutter: Mechanical leaf shutter, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250 plus Bulb
- Metering: None — exposure set by weather-symbol system
- Flash: Hot shoe and PC socket, X-sync at all speeds
- Filter thread: M46 x 0.75
- Weight: Approx. 357g
Condition
- Cosmetic: Very good, with minimal signs of age and use. The lens has some dust and one scratch on it.
- Functional: Bulb and all other shutter speeds working.
Included
- BelOMO Vilia body (body only)
In short
All speeds fire and Bulb works, so it is ready to load. The lens carries some dust and a single scratch — at this size and on a triplet, neither is the kind of thing that shows in a print. Body only, no case or caps.