Seagull DF-300

Seagull DF-300 image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson (Image rights)

DF-300 with Rokkor lens image by Uwe Kulick (Image rights)

Minolta X-300 image by Plischke Werner (Image rights)

The Seagull DF-300 is a SLR camera body with Minolta SR-bayonet. It can be used with most of the lenses which are made for Minolta's manual focus SLRs. On the back it is marked "Shanghai China, licensed by Minolta". It's a licensed copy of Minolta's X-300 which was produced in the same factory. Name variants branded Safari, Centon, and Carena were also sold, and the Vivitar V50 seems to be the same camera, as well as Soligor's SR-300 MD.

Specifications

• Type: SLR body
• Manufacturer: Seagull
• Film: 35mm
• Lens mount: Minolta SR-bayonet with aperture release tappet for Minolta MC and MD lenses
• Shutter: quartz-controlled focal plane shutter, speeds 4 sec. to 1/1000 sec. (auto), 1 sec. to 1/1000 sec. (manual)
• Viewfinder: pentaprism finder, screen with micro-prism and split image for distance setting
• Metering: integral center-weighted measuring with photo diode
• Exposure: manual setting, or shutter speed automatically controlled by meter (EV 1 to 18, with LED speed scale in viewfinder)
• Self-timer: Electronic timer with red LED signal

Soligor SR-300 MD image by nippoletano (Image rights)

Name variant "Safari DF-300" image by Thumpr455 (Image rights)

Centon DF-300 image by _Tophee_ (Image rights)

Variants

The follolwing cameras are all copies of the Minolta X-300 (Minolta X-370):

• Centon DF-300
• Soligor SR-300 MD
• Kalimar KX 5000
• Vivitar V50
• Seagull DF-300
• Carena SX-300
• Carena DF-300
• Safari DF-300
• Texer EX-3
• Zenit DF-300
• Revue DF-300
• Samyang DF-400x

Links

• DF-300 in Minowiki [1]