Film Fridays: The humble, plastic Soviet-era cameras that summited Mount Everest

Russian climber Valentin Ivanov using a Smena Symbol. Photo: Technointorg In this week's Film Friday, from our pals at Kosmo Foto, we join up with a group of Soviet climbers prepping to summit Mount Everest. The year is 1982 and to document the expedition, the team decides to bring along five plastic Smena Symbol viewfinder cameras. A humble, simple-to-use unit - intended more for family-use than mountaineering - the Symbol proves to be the perfect companion for the trip. Its lack of electronics...