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Leesobing
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ORINGAL SROURE FROM CAMGLE (which is CHINESE)
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"Pearl River" past
The camera collectors, Pearl River is a great topic S201 camera. As the pinnacle of Chinese-made SLR camera for, it created a lot of China's first camera to record the history of the Chinese section of the camera glorious past. However, this "Pearl River" brand, but in the two decades has experienced ups and downs of the pros and cons entanglement implicated in the history of the Chinese section of the camera right and wrong scores, it is interesting. Let us look back to this "Pearl River" past.
Chongqing walking in the streets, if you ask where the Pearl River Optoelectronic Company may be that people would shake their heads, but if you say it is the former 338 factory or Mingguang factory, they tend to realize the fact to tell you, that production of the Pearl River Camera Plant ah, in the Nanping six quarters. That is how I began the pursuit of the Pearl River SLR cameras.
That I have come, deputy chief engineer of the company first took me to the WU Law Library, pointing to a product display cabinet
Pearl camera WU law subject to the thoughts back to the early 60s of last century. He told me that, when the country launched three-line construction, in the area of Guang'an Huayingshan point of a number of military enterprises cloth, of which there are well-known for producing precision instruments, the five "light" Generation name companies, they are Mingguang, Huaguang, Golden, Everlight, Hing light, attached to the former Ministry of Machine-5, that is, weapons later the Ministry of Industry, directly in charge of units are located in Chongqing, southwest ordnance bureau.
From the guns, bullets to the telescope, anti-aircraft gun sight, school target mirror, these military enterprises in China made meritorious contributions to the production of light weapons, and laid a strong foundation for the development of China's military industry. WU law still clearly remember that the more self-defense in the early fighting, the Vietnamese military sniper rifles used by the Chinese army in. This disadvantage is not small, Mingguang factories organized technical personnel to emergency research, in a very short time succeeded in imitation of the Soviet SVD sniper rifle at the front in the war set illustrious military exploits. |
Leesobing
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However, these stand out why the military industrial enterprises involved in camera production? WU law told me that since 1972, a substantial decline in military missions, so response to the state enterprise "guarantee conversion," the call to begin developing products for civilian use. Which was first set foot in the camera field of Mingguang plant.
R & D process on the camera, I am in the "state-owned 338 Factory Factory History" found written records such as: "February 14, 1973, the former Ministry of Machine-five ministerial meetings held in Beijing to identify areas in Sichuan Province China Ying Several optical factory for the production of the Area, one of the camera. and was held in Beijing in March that year the camera collaboration meeting, agreed to 338 plants proposed by the "Shanghai Seagull DF-type camera for the mother type, the adoption of foreign cameras -- - Japan's Nikon F camera advantage, improved 10 "ideas, and to identify 338 plants as a retrofit unit of the chief architect of the camera
WU law said that the "MIE DON" the camera a smooth introduction and in the future development of the "Pearl River" is China's single-lens reflex camera for Dengfeng, there are two reasons in particular are worth mentioning. First, Shanghai Camera Factory support. In that year the planned economy system, the camera manufacturing industry has a valuable "national a game of chess," the great spirit of collaboration, exchange of needed goods between factories, the Shanghai Camera Factory has given selfless help Mingguang plant. Another more important reason why lies in the United States and multi-camera design, and does not stop at the blueprint for seagulls, there is no full photo full copy, but with the characteristics of Japan's Nikon F camera has been optimized to improve. For example, it uses curtain focal plane shutter, shutter speed to 1 / 1000 sec, with X, FP flash sync institutions, the use of split-image micro-prism focus, both head-up shooting, but also overlooking the viewfinder, there is predicted depth of field device, the surface of the black chrome plating tried new techniques, etc., these designs is much better than the domestic similar products. |
Leesobing
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For this was renamed, and many collectors are very puzzled by the camera. "Pearl River" is a camera factory in Guangzhou in the 60's began to use the brand names, such as the early 60s produced in the Pearl River 60-I ,60-II 120 folding camera, produced in 67 years, Pearl River 4, 70 years, Pearl River produced seven Type 120 pairs of anti-camera, while the Mingguang, golden light that several military factories stayed indoors and mountains of Southwest China, and the Pearl River can be said that eight pole Dabu Zhao, then the camera why they produce would give up, "the United States and more" real name, instead using the "Pearl River" and become a scourge in the future does incur any eventuality?
Reading of "338 Factory History", p. 79, I finally found the answer: March 19, 1974, Wah Ying Area of plants in 338 plant production collaboration will be held the camera. Council under the Ministry of Machine-5, Ministry of Foreign Trade Light Industry Import and Export Corporation and Guangzhou Import & Export Corporation and other units, the decision to the United States multi-brand prototype some improvements to make our products more perfect performance and style, open the export market. Fight for exports, to increase national foreign exchange earnings, avoiding duplication of foreign trademark registration, the meeting decided to borrow the export of the Pearl River in Guangzhou port camera series of trade marks, brand naming prototype for the Pearl River S-201 Model 135 single-lens reflex camera
In order to avoid duplication of exports, registered trademarks, and so he mixed with a brand - one so simple yet so confusing reasons. However, if we use the logic of the planned economy to understand the words, this was renamed also come out ahead. In the planned economy, enterprises almost no concept of the brand, and even what is produced, how production by the government have the final say, not to mention a name, what kind of effect. In this way, the era of deeply imprinted with "Pearl River" single-lens reflex camera into the commercialization stage. However, the early years of production is not high, I have found from the factory in the history of such data: from 1975 to 1976 is a pre-production stage, the factory-made components produced by the camera 50; in 1977, to break down the production line, starting mass production, the year produced a total of 705 cameras. |
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would the post too long ?
The camera assembly by Mingguang, golden light, Yongguang completion of the three plants, the use of a unified "Pearl River" brand. Now, however, to tell which camera is the final assembly plant Which is not difficult, since the year Gejia plant in the assembly when they left a clue that they own factory name of the first phonetic alphabet carved in a plane body, to show differences. Ming lithography "M", Kim Kwang-carved "J", Yongguang inscribed "Y".
Camera production in China's history, like Pearl S201 such minor complex division of labor, can be described as unique, it can only be in the pace of a high degree of unity, a relatively abundant technical strength, the military system can be realized. WU law that, when this Huayingshan several precision instrument factory district, from the optical processing to the assembly, adjustment and other links, all have a very solid technical foundation. Once the military craft production methods applied to the camera, its strengths came to the fore. Indeed, the Pearl River S201 camera production in China's history, but hit a lot of records. For example, the camera resolution is a measure of the performance of key indicators of the camera when the camera industry has developed state, "65 standard" to provide a center of product to achieve resolution of 37 line pairs, and then, the camera has reached the Pearl River 59 lines of the above, significantly more than one product standards; it also uses a plastic ring with a prism, which greatly improved the camera's focusing accuracy and framing effects, to fill the camera industry of China, a gap; In addition, the Pearl River S201 package 7 kinds of fixed-focus lens, four kinds of zoom lens is the camera lens series made the most complete; is also China's first interchangeable viewfinder of the camera 135 TYPE
In1970S China is still in the relatively closed environment, in the absence of the introduction of foreign production line circumstances, Pearl S201 all the more than 1300 parts were manufactured from our own production line out, it should be said that this is a very remarkable thing , but also abroad, a sense of the camera industry's most surprised at. |
Leesobing
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CHANGE THE NAME "MINGCA
However, in 1986, the Pearl River budding camera, it's the fate of a sudden turn of events occurred in rapid deterioration. That year, several military factories got a message: Guangzhou camera factory registered by the "Pearl River" trademark. At that time, China started to implement trademark law shortly. However, the information is located in isolated mountainous areas and military enterprises of inertia own way of thinking, so that they do not really understand the new rules of the game in the end what it means, until the national authorities of a ban of paper down, did they suddenly discovered that has been lost "Pearl River"! Today, many older employees are still talking about this matter to heart.
In fact, since 1974, Pearl S201 SLR inception, Chongqing, "Pearl River" and Guangzhou, "Pearl River", there is no involved with anything to do. In the planned economy era, the factory in accordance with government directives in the production, there is no sense of competition, there is no mark. Camera factory in Guangzhou has been produced by the Pearl River 120 pairs of anti-camera and a 35mm rangefinder camera, and Chongqing's military-industrial enterprises have been focused on the SLR series. This is more than a decade, we all produce their own systems, the idea is no problem. But getting into the mid-80s, trademarks, patents, brands, accompanied these with the concept of a market economy began to enter China and become forced to consider the issue of business survival. But at the muddle, the several military factories to miss an opportunity, and eventually lose this they had fought for, and proud of trademarks - the Pearl River. |
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BREAKDOWN
History into the 90's, Huayingshan five brothers, and other three-line plant, as the city ushered in the return to the relocation of the peak. The three-point line construction during the fabric of the military industrial enterprises in the southwest mountains that pulled out of the mountains back to town, five brothers, also from pursuing their own course. Mingguang factory moved to Chongqing Nanping, Chongqing was renamed fairview Photoelectric Instrument Factory; Huaguang factory moved to Chongqing, Beibei, Chongqing Guanghua Instrument Factory was renamed; Yongguang factory moved to Sichuan Pixian, renamed Chengdu Huaxi optical electronic instrument factory ; Golden factory moved to new capital of Sichuan County, changed its name to Waldo Optical Instrument Factory, Sichuan; Xing Light Factory moved to Sichuan Pi County, changed its name to Xing-ray machine factory in Chengdu. Since then, when laid together, "Pearl River" the world's five brothers and Union to crumble.
In the meantime, several assembly plants have been successively developed new products. For example Ming Jia-guang plant (formerly Ming-factory) introduced the "Ming Jia MCK1000" Neice light camera, and in 1990 the National Trade Fair and Exhibition conversion high-tech exports were the highest award category Camera Silver; Chengdu Huaxi Light Plant (formerly Yongguang Plant) development and production of the "West" S-80, S-90 SLR camera, Waldo optical power plant (the former golden plant) production of "Waldo S-207M" and "Waldo S-207T" Single Anti-camera, had in 1991 won the National Photographic Machinery Fair "Star Award." But in the end, these have not been able honor and writing "Pearl River" glory days, these "Pearl River" derivative products experienced a brief after they have discontinued production.
Please forgive the post may too long .However Rearl RIVER is a special camera In Chinese's Camera .Which is USING MINOLTA MD MOUNT and has NIKON F APPERARL,but which rare know in the world.
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Harryrag
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..., well, I own several Chinese SLRs of that vintage, including the one that you call "prototype" (branded S 201), which I bought on a local fair for light industrial products from PRC in the mid 80s. Its makers seemed inspired by a number of SLRs, so it combines features of the meterless Minolta SR line, early Mirandas and, of course, Nikons. Optical quality of the standard lens is quite good, overall machining quality is far below western standard of that time. On the other hand, however, the specimens without mechanical isssues are pretty sturdy. |
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