Seagull Reflex DF

With English nameplate image by bestfor / richard (Image rights)

image by Paulo Moreira (Image rights)

The Seagull Reflex DF was a SLR camera body for 35mm film. It was the first of Seagull's series of SLR bodies with Minolta SR mount. It was cloned under license from Minolta from that company's SR-3, but developed further to have a mirror lock-up feature as first found in the SR-7. This proves that Chinese engineers didn't just copy! The body shape of the Seagull also differs from that of the Minolta model.
The camera was succeeded by the Seagull DF-1 in 1969 and later by a face-lifted version Seagull Seagull DF-2. Serial numbers of most DF-SLR-bodies began with '102-...'. Thus one variant even got this number as name, the Seagull DF-102b.

name variant Peafowl DF-1 image by Jim Wang (Image rights)

specifications

• Type: SLR body
• Manufacturer: Seagull
• Year of launch: 1964
• Film: 35mm
• Lens mount: Minolta SR-bayonet
• Shutter: cloth focal plane shutter, speeds 1 sec. to 1/1000 sec. plus B
• Viewfinder: pentaprism finder with simple screen
• Flash: X- and FP-flash sync.
• Accessory: winder

variant Seagull DF-1

• Type: SLR body
• Manufacturer: Seagull
• Year of launch: 1969
• Film: 35mm
• Lens mount: Minolta SR-bayonet
• Shutter: focal plane shutter, speeds 1 sec. to 1/1000 sec. plus B
• Viewfinder: pentaprism finder with simple screen
• Flash: hot shoe for X-flash sync. at speeds 1/30 to 1/60 sec.

Seagull DF-102b image by 安峰林 (Image rights)

Seagull DF-2 image by hto2008 (Image rights)

Links

• Seagull Reflex DF at Virtuelles Kameramuseum Kurt Tauber (in German) (wrong info about meter that doesn't really exist)
• Seagull DF at Collection G. Even's site (in French) (very limited information here)