Seagull Cameraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Shanghai Seagull Camera Ltd is a Chinese camera maker located in Shanghai, China. Seagull is the oldest camera maker in China. The product line of Seagull includes TLR cameras, SLR cameras, folding cameras, CCD and SLR camera lenses, large-format cameras, film, night vision scopes, and angle viewfinders. Seagull's cameras usually use basic, time-tested mechanical designs that require no batteries. Seagull has made 21 million cameras since it was founded in 1958. Like so many Chinese industrial products at the time, they were copies or simplified copies of German and Japanese designs. Among these were products from Leitz, Rollei, Agfa, Makina, Hasselblad and above all the SLRs of Minolta. Made at first without license, the latter were later produced with former Minolta tooling. As of 2011, there seems to be no effort in moving into the field of comparable digital cameras. Some Seagull cameras are distributed through the Lomography company.