Centon DF-300
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| Centon DF-300 image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson (Image rights) |
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| Centon DF-300 image by _Tophee_ (Image rights) |
The Centon DF-300 is a compact SLR camera body with a Minolta MD SR-bayonet mount. It can be used with most of the lenses which are made for Minolta's manual focus SLRs. It's a copy of Minolta's X-300 which was produced in the same Shanghai, China factory. Centon was the house brand of the UK camera store Jessops, for cameras and accessories including lenses, flash equipment and power winders.[1] Other name variants branded Safari, Seagull and Carena were also sold; the Vivitar V50 seems to be the same camera, as well as Soligor's SR-300 MD.
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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) and 1 sec. to 1/1000 sec. (manual)
- Flash Sync Speed: 1/60 sec.
- 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
- Automatic Exposure Lock (AEL) button
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 DF-300
- Carena SX-300
- Safari DF-300
- Texer EX-3
- Zenit DF-300
- Revue DF-300
- Samyang DF-400x
- Kinon X-380
Notes
- ↑ The trademark 'Centon' was registered with the US Patent & Trademark Office, serial no. 75559845 on 28 September 1998 by Jessop Group Limited of Leicester, UK, and registered with reg. no. 2833465, and was cancelled on 26 November 2010; search trademarks at the USPTO search page (results page is not linkable).
