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The LOMO FT-2 (Russian: ФТ-2) is a 35mm swing-lens panoramic camera produced by **LOMO (Leningrad Optical Mechanical Association)** beginning in 1958. It produces a dramatically wide 24x110mm frame on standard 35mm film - roughly three standard frames side-by-side - using a rotating Industar-50 50mm f/3.5 lens that sweeps across the film plane during exposure. The camera has no meter, no rangefinder, and no electronic components: exposure is set manually by the user and focus is via a distance scale on the lens barrel.
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About this camera
The Soviet Union's swing-lens panoramic 35mm, exposing a 24x110mm frame on standard 35mm film.
| Field | Value |
|---|
| Format | 35mm, 24x110mm panoramic frame |
| Lens | Industar-50 50mm f/3.5 (rotating, fixed) |
| Shutter | Rotary/swing-lens, ~1/100s - 1/400s |
| Flash sync | ~ |
| Focus | Scale-focus |
| Meter | None |
| Exposure modes | Manual only |
| Weight | ~600 g |
| Battery | None required |
The FT-2 was developed at LOMO in Leningrad in the late 1950s as part of a broader Soviet interest in specialized optical instruments for surveying, photojournalism, and artistic documentation. The panoramic format had practical appeal for landscape, architectural, and group documentation work where a single wide exposure was preferable to stitching multiple frames.
The camera uses a curved film plane to maintain consistent focus across the wide angle of coverage as the lens sweeps - a necessary design feature of the swing-lens approach. The Industar-50, a four-element Tessar-type design optimized for the rotating panoramic application, was chosen for its compactness and adequate coverage at the required sweep angle.
The FT-2 preceded the Horizont (introduced in the late 1960s), which superseded it as LOMO's primary panoramic offering and eventually led to the Horizont Perfekt and various Lomography-branded successors. The FT-2 is significantly rarer than the Horizont family, as it was produced in smaller numbers and had a shorter production run.
The FT-2 is one of a very small number of mass-produced 35mm swing-lens panoramic cameras from any country, and the earliest from the Soviet Union. Its panoramic format - 24x110mm - is unusual enough to produce photographs that are immediately distinctive from any standard 35mm or medium-format camera. The curved film plane, combined with the rotating lens, produces characteristic mild distortion of fast-moving subjects near the edges of the frame (subjects moving with the lens sweep appear elongated; those moving against it appear compressed), which became an aesthetic signature of the format.
For the collector and user communities that developed around Soviet cameras from the 1990s onward, the FT-2 represents an engineering curiosity with genuine pictorial utility. Unlike the toy-camera aesthetic of the Lomo LC-A or Holga, the FT-2 produces its distinctive images through a legitimate optical mechanism rather than optical aberration or vignetting.
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