Main domestic SLR camera brands:
1. Domestic SLR camera brand Dongfang Camera
Tianjin Camera Factory is one of the famous camera manufacturers in my country , founded in 1956, has produced the "July 1" brand 120 leather cavity folding camera as a gift to the party's birthday, the "Happiness" brand 120 simple camera, the "Morning Light" brand 135 single-lens reflex advanced camera, and the "Lanjian" "brand panoramic camera, "Oriental" brand 120 dual-lens reflex camera, 135S series rangefinder (head-up) view camera, EF-35 plastic folding camera with flash, etc., these are very important in the history of the development of cameras in our country. The representative variety is a classic camera with epoch-making significance. The "Oriental" brand S series 135 camera is the factory's most representative, largest output, and most influential. It consists of 4 models and 6 styles: S1, S2, S3, and S4.
2. Shanghai Camera, one of the domestic SLR camera brands,
On March 17, 1958, it was jointly established by the camera trial production team of Shanghai Watch Industry Company and a number of stationery, electroplating and other manufacturers. Shanghai Camera Factory was established. The camera trial production team of Shanghai Watch and Clock Industry Company also named the imitation Soviet "Zolky" 35mm lens shutter camera "Shanghai 58-I", and then began to imitate the West German "Leica" machine - "Shanghai 58-II".
Everyone who knows the history of camera development in my country knows that the "Shanghai 58-I" camera produced by the Shanghai Camera Factory in 1958 plays an extremely important role in the history of the development of cameras in my country. The emergence of "type" marked the formalization of camera production in new my country, and was also the first batch of industrially produced cameras. The "Shanghai 58-II" is a complete imitation of the German "Leica IIIb" and is extremely exquisite in production. It is jokingly called the Shanghai version of Leica, with a production volume of about 1,100.
4. Zhujiang Camera, a domestic SLR camera brand
Pearljiang SLR is a famous domestic camera, and the faint black body is almost its brand. It is derived from the Seagull DF, but its performance finally surpassed the Seagull. It has a vague shadow of the Nikon F. It is as solid and kind, as strong and durable, and its accessories are the most complete among domestic SLRs.
In December 1972, the Fifth Ministry of Machinery Industry organized five instrument factories including Huaguang, Mingguang, Jinguang, Yongguang, and Xinghuo in the southwest region and the Yunnan Optical Instrument Factory to negotiate with the Guangzhou Light Industrial Products Import and Export Company. Jointly developed the production of export cameras, and decided that four factories including Huaguang, Mingguang, Jinguang, and Yongguang would produce 35MM single-lens reflex cameras, and the product would be named "Zhujiang S-201"; three factories including Huaguang, Yunnan, and Xinghuo would develop and produce it. The matching wide-angle, medium focus and zoom series camera lenses. Six years later, after intermittent modifications, it was not until 1978 that the camera officially began production. Zhujiang brand camera was officially born. The biggest feature of the "Zhujiang S-201" is that the pentaprism viewfinder and the waist-level viewfinder are interchangeable, and the accessory socket is located under the rewinding unit and can also be removed.
4. The domestic SLR camera brand Great Wall Camera
In 1980, Beijing Camera Factory launched a Great Wall DF-1 120 popular SLR camera. At that time, the 120 camera market Mainly based on Haiou 4A, 4B and other double reverse. The Great Wall DF-1 is based on the popular 120 SLR camera of the "Pilot" brand produced in Germany in the mid-1930s and improved upon it. The mass production of Great Wall DF-1 not only adds new varieties to domestic 120 cameras, but also activates the domestic camera market.
5. Domestic SLR camera brand Seagull camera
In 1963, Shanghai No. 2 Camera Factory (formerly Shanghai Camera Factory No. 2 Branch) trial-produced a domestic folding camera. The "Shanghai 203" camera with the highest technical indicators is equipped with a dual-image focusing device and an exposure index reference table. The exposure can be set using the index adjustment method. In addition, a controllable reshooting device is added, which can be used when multiple exposures are required. In this case, you can forcefully cancel the anti-retake mode. Since the country later proposed that cameras should not be named after places and specified that all cameras produced in Shanghai would be named after "Seagull" in the future, "Shanghai 203" was renamed to the famous "Seagull 203". (One of the "two birds" cameras that are still flying in our country) This camera continued to be produced until the 1980s. Of course, there was also the "Seagull-IV" type double reflex camera that appeared during the same period and for the same reason, which was the foundation model for the future "Seagull-IV" series of products.
6. Domestic SLR camera brand Phoenix Camera
In 1970, Jiangxi Optical Instrument Factory, which was established by relocating five Shanghai and other corresponding factories inland, revised the "Shanghai 205" production. Named "Seagull 205". The optical quality of the "Seagull 205" lens is quite excellent, so Jiangxi Optical Instrument Factory subsequently continued to revise and redesign it, eventually forming a complete product series. In order to truly establish its own brand and distinguish it from the "Seagull" of Shanghai Camera Factory, in 1983, after negotiation with Suzhou Baiyang Camera Factory, Jiangxi Optical Instrument Factory obtained and officially started to use the "Phoenix" trademark. (The second bird that is still flying in Chinese cameras has begun to take off.) The first generation of "Phoenix" is the "Phoenix 205". To this day, the "Phoenix" series is still praised by many domestic consumers, such as the "Phoenix 205E".