Abstract :
I WILL never forget my first camera. Its legendary unreliability began with its name ?? \´Smena\´, which means \´replacement\´ in Russian. To me, it echoed the first-generation Soviet \´KVN\´ TV set (a huge black crate with a matchbox-size screen in the middle), which some home-grown wits deciphered as "Kupil, Vkliuchil, Ne rabotayet??, or ??bought, switched on, doesn\´t work".
