Eastar
|
| Eastar TLR image by Elmo Alves (Image rights) |
| Chinese TLRs and "pseudo TLRs" |
| Cangle | Dalian | Eastar | Emei | Five-Goats | Hongmei-5 | Hua Ying | Hua Zhong | Mudan | Pearl River | Qingdao SF-2 | Rainbow | Seagull 4 | Seagull 4A | Seagull 4B | Seagull 4C | Seagull 4D | Shanghai | Splendidflex | Temple of Heaven | Wuhan Youyi | YC-75X100 |
| Hong Kong |
| Bedfordflex | Binaflex | Halina A1 | Halina Prefect | Halina Viceroy | Haking Mirroflex II | Traveller |
The Eastar was produced by the Tianjin Camera Factory in about 1977, and is a 6x6 TLR sharing the same basic design as the Seagull 4B. It uses knob film advance with a red window for frame counting, with an option to mask the film gate to 6x4.5 cm (to yield 16 exposures per roll of 120 film). It has a coated 75mm lens which offers an aperture range between f/3.5 and f/16, and shutter speeds from 1 to 1/300 sec. It also has a self timer and a PC flash synch.
Bibliography
St Denny, Douglas, Cameras of the People's Republic of China. Leicester, UK: Jessop Specialist Publishing, 1989
