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BERRY alain
mermoz37
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 Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 07:18:21 AM
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for information...
I found it in old (1958 ?) Sovietskoe photo magazine.
may be Vlad can translate kindly here ? |
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
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Vladislav Kern
Vlad
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Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 08:45:31 AM
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Alain,
it says that in Chuntzin (?) China a mass production of a first Chinese camera started. "Camera Yantzi is analogous to Russian Smena." Then there is a technical specification and then it says that the factory is also preparing for a production of another camera of "Leica" type and a twin-reflect camera.
Cheers,
Vlad. |
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BERRY alain
mermoz37
France
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Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 09:08:39 AM
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oh, thanks again Vlad..
may be interest for Juani information ,??... |
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Juhani Halmeenmaki
cedricfan
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Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 1:08:27 PM
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The "Yangtze" River or Chang Jiang is the name in English and Chinese. Russsian is written like it is spoken, so foreign words may look very different. I always laugh to John Wayne written in Russian...
It was made by Yangtze Government Electrical Factory in Chingqing, Sichuan. As far as I know the factory did not produce other cameras, but in Sichuan there was other factories making TLR called Hua Ying and SLR called Pedarl River.
The other Smena-clone "Hua Shan" was however made at Xibei Optical Technical Factory in Xian, which also produced a Lubitel-clone called Changle.So sounds like they referred to that TLR?
Leica-type cameras were several.
Yangtze River (1958) in Nanjing, FED-2 clone. Maybe the name mislead the USSR press, like Zenit made in Belarus and in Russia?
Nanjing (59-61?) also in Nanjing, another clone of FED-2
Shanghai 58 (58-63?) in Shanghai, a copy of Leica-IIIb
Hopefully not too much OT as this does include links to FSU-cameras? Always glad to give my small information about Chinese cameras, which are indeed even much more a challenge than FSU-cameras! |
Edited by - cedricfan on Oct 01 2008 1:10:39 PM |
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Luiz Paracampo
Luiz Paracampo
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Posted - Oct 01 2008 : 2:29:55 PM
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Great Juhani!
A perfect explanation! The name may correctly be spelled as "YANTZI" the real chinese sound of Yang-tze.
This could pehaps be applied to the Zenit sound if we would write as the russians pronunciate - "ZINIT".
Regards LP
On time: Really funny and interesting the names of people at WWII like Wiston Churchill etc. written in Russian. We discover new persons! |
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about chinese Smena
