Mingca MC K1000
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The Mingca MC K1000 is a K mount 35mm SLR manufactured in China. Its suspicious resemblance to a Pentax K1000 is evidently due to it being built with tooling left over from the final Chinese-assembled incarnation of that model. It does however add the self-timer which the Pentax model lacked.
The domestic-market-only Mingca initially appeared as the Pearl River S-207, but was renamed to avoid confusion with the historic Pearl River TLR cameras. Under the Mingca name it was on the market in 1991.[1] Several examples of cameras without brand engravings for easy relabeling have been observed in SE Asia and Latin America.
Notes
- ↑ Noted in a January 1991 Popular Photography overview of the Photokina show, page 50; via Google Books.
Links
- Pearl River and Mingca version (at the bottom of the page) from Brazilian Oddity Cameras site
In Chinese:
- Mingca K1000 with 360° views (and in Google Translate English); from Xiangshenghang Camera Museum
